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• England 400; India 146-1 • Full scorecard from day two of the fourth Test Given that they have to win this Test to have a chance of levelling the series this was a grim day for England’s tourists. They did not play too badly; Jos Buttler shepherded the tail impressively when they batted, then the bowlers and fielders, gathering the red dust of Mumbai on their whites all the while, toiled honestly enough when in the field. But the figures make gloomy reading for a side that has to win. Four hundred is not a bad score but at the close of the second day India had batted for 52 overs and they have 146 runs on the board with just a solitary wicket down. Virat Kohli has yet to be enticed to the crease. Related: India v England: fourth Test, day two – as it happened Related: Keaton Jennings ‘bit the bullet and went for it’ to claim century on England debut | Ali Martin Continue reading...

Jos Buttler and Jake Ball carried England to a strong total of 400, before some poor bowling and an unbeat 107-run stand between Murali Vijay and Cheteshwar Pujara put India in a good position 11.04am GMT 52nd over: India 146-1 (Pujara 47, Vijay 70) We can indeed and it’s Root to bowl it. Vijay sees the first couple of balls off before working a short one round the corner for two, before going back to the business of defending the rest. That’s stumps on a day that started very well for England before quickly souring. The match is just about evenly poised but the tourists’ bowling was absolute dross, too short and with far too many easy runs offered to this partnership, which is worth 107. Join us again tomorrow as India look to pile on more runs before bringing - gulp - Virat Kohli to the crease. Cheers for reading. Bye! Oh well.... https://t.co/3gnVK31VeN 10.58am GMT 51st over: India 144-1 (Pujara 47, Vijay 68) Rashid goes up for lbw second ball against Pujara but he’d got outside the line and it was turning away too, I’ll wager. A couple of balls later Vijay, at the non-striker’s end, wants a single but Pujara is playing for stumps now. We should squeeze in one extra over past the 90. 10.55am GMT 50th over: India 144-1 (Pujara 47, Vijay 68) A steady maiden from Root, which probably counts as a plus for England in context. 10.53am GMT 49th over: India 144-1 (Pujara 47, Vijay 68) Ugh, yet more crap from Rashid: very short and about a yard and a half wide of leg-stump. Pujara gives it what it deserves and pulls it to the long-leg boundary. Two overs to go today, or eight minutes, and Pujara will be eyeing his own 50 with spin bowling like this. 10.49am GMT 48th over: India 140-1 (Pujara 43, Vijay 68) A double change: here, for the first time today, is Joe Root. He begins with a filthy, very wide ball that nearly brings a wicket when Pujara’s attempt at a cut so nearly takes the edge through to Bairstow. Once again there’s a mix-up in the middle when Vijay opts not to run for an easy single. Vijay is batting in a cap now. 10.46am GMT 47th over: India 139-1 (Pujara 42, Vijay 68) Spin from both ends as Rashid, whose length hasn’t been great either and is reflected by Batty-esque figures of 10-0-44-0, replaces Woakes. He has a slip and a sort-of silly forward point, which feels generous given those figures. Pujara pushes to mid-on for a single, which brings up the second hundred partnership of the series for this pair. 10.42am GMT 46th over: India 138-1 (Pujara 41, Vijay 68) Pujara goes into the 40s, coming down the track to Moeen and clipping beautifully between the fielders on the on-side to the boundary at wide mid-on. Moeen has been too short today. 10.38am GMT 45th over: India 133-1 (Pujara 36, Vijay 68) Six overs at least left in the day after this one, so with 25 minutes left and a spinner at one end we might well get one or two extras. These two have put on 94 so far; they average more than 65 together, the best of any Indian pair with at least 2,000 runs. Those stats do not change in this over. 10.34am GMT 44th over: India 133-1 (Pujara 36, Vijay 68) Moeen switches to round the wicket, an angle none of the off-spinners have tried all that much on either side in this match. And perhaps this is why: Vijay hoiks a short on on leg-stump through midwicket for four more. Is this a joke? @DanLucas86 I think India are looking good to avoiding follow-on. But importantly will Cook enforce it? Your thoughts? #INDvENG 10.31am GMT 43rd over: India 128-1 (Pujara 36, Vijay 63) After leaking three boundaries in his last three overs, Anderson is taken off and replaced by Woakes. I feel like England are missing Stuart Broad and his cutters here, which sounds curious given that it’s a spinning pitch, but he is perhaps England’s best bowler as - shameless Guardian plug alert - Barney Ronay explains here. Related: An ode to Stuart Broad: England’s underrated, but best, big-time bowler | Barney Ronay 10.26am GMT 42nd over: India 124-1 (Pujara 32, Vijay 63) You know what I just actually let out a low whistle at this one: Vijay steps down the track as Moeen wanted, only his drilled it inside-out, over mid-off and miles back into the stands for his second six. A couple of balls before that there was an lbw appeal when he missed a sweep, but he was hit outside the line. What a way to celebrate that though. 10.22am GMT 41st over: India 118-1 (Pujara 32, Vijay 57) Just a few signs of nerves among the batsmen now: there’s a slight mixup that results in a run being missed, as there was (but, um, I forgot to mention) in the previous over. One off this one. 10.20am GMT 40th over: India 117-1 (Pujara 32, Vijay 56) This is a good battle, with Moeen looking to tempt the batsmen forward as he did to bring about KL Rahul’s downfall and the pair at the crease looking for areas to score. A stalemate here. “Always nice to see Thom Yorke slowly drowning,” writes Jonathan Budds, “but you lose big points for misquoting the lyric; it’s ‘tired and unhappy’, which probably sums up you OBO’ers for this test series up pretty well.” 10.16am GMT 39th over: India 117-1 (Pujara 32, Vijay 56) Now Anderson’s plan nearly comes off when Pujara flicks him off the pads and just wide of the diving Jennings at short-leg. That was travelling much too fast for the fielder though. The in-form No3 drills one square on the off-side, off the back foot with a vertical bat, and away to the boundary. Vijay ends the over with two to fine-leg. Lee Smith writes: “Perhaps a recall for the King of Spain is in order then we call all listen to this. ” @danlucas86 if we have to bowl another spinner just to take up overs, why not just give Root a bowl? (We don't have too, I agree with you) 10.12am GMT 38th over: India 109-1 (Pujara 27, Vijay 53) “Here, have a 50, it’s yours, I don’t mind,” proffers the generous Moeen Ali to Vijay. He drops short and wide and Vijay just rolls it down to the rope at third man to bring up a fine, hard-fought half-century . He’s done well after a tough start. 10.09am GMT 37th over: India 104-1 (Pujara 27, Vijay 48) Anderson continues, sans slip with the lead whittled down to just 296. He does have a silly mid-on and a forward short leg but neither is required to do more than gather the ball and return it to the bowler here. 10.05am GMT @DanLucas86 Boycott is really laying into England for picking 4 seamers. "Brainless" apparently. Can't disagree - more spin needed. Yeah a solid 8-0-44-0 from Gareth Batty would be just the tonic. 10.02am GMT 36th over: India 104-1 (Pujara 27, Vijay 48) Murali Vijay’s wait for his 50 will go on a few minutes more as a maiden precedes drinks . Thank you for all your tweets about the photo caption that had a small mistake for all of a few minutes. Refresh the page and it has been spotted and changed. 9.59am GMT 35th over: India 104-1 (Pujara 27, Vijay 48) Stokes, drier than a Charlie Brooker review with none for four from his four overs, gets a rest and is replaced by Anderson. Pujara immediately brings up the Indian 100 with a very nice shot, guided off the back foot to the third-man boundary and follows that up with a nice drive through cover point for four more. They weren’t even bad balls, with barely a hint of width outside off, just outstanding batting. The final ball brings a ludicrous appeal for lbw, missing leg and too high. Raakesh Natraj isn’t happy: “Precisely the kind of partnership that is going to ruin things for the home team. These two go on serenely, making the dressing room believe this is a featherbed. They in turn come out, go for their shorts and the side ends up getting bowled out for 270. The World Cup winning venue hasn’t really worked out for India against England in Tests in the recent past.” 9.54am GMT 34th over: India 96-1 (Pujara 19, Vijay 48) Change of bowling with Moeen replacing Rashid. He has Pujara in all kinds of trouble with a right old jaffa, going through the top and coming back a long way and bouncing violently into the batsman’s midriff. One off the over, driven down the ground. 9.51am GMT 33rd over: India 95-1 (Pujara 18, Vijay 48) Another Stokes over, another maiden. Atherton agrees with me and, perhaps more importantly, the England selectors (but did Harry Shearer from Spinal Tap and The Simpsons buy them lunch this week*? No) that this is the best balance for England’s attack. *Sorry, I know how shameless this is. 9.47am GMT 32nd over: India 95-1 (Pujara 18, Vijay 48) There’s a delay while the umpires check the shape of, and subsequently opt to change, the ball. Ravi Shastri points out that India got through 121 overs without having the old ball changed once. I don’t know what conclusion to draw from that. Back here, Vijay is beaten on the inside edge by a googly and, like the subject of a rubbish Verve song, is a lucky man as the ball barely misses his off-stump. The final ball isn’t anywhere near as good - the Lucky Man to that googly’s The Drugs Don’t Work to confuse the analogy - and Vijay works it square on the leg-side for three. 9.39am GMT 31st over: India 90-1 (Pujara 17, Vijay 45) During the tea break I think it was Marcus Trescothick who said India would be all out before the close. However firmly his tongue might have been planted in his cheek, he was very wrong; this is still a good pitch to bat on even if the odd ball from the spinners is doing a bit. Vijay’s single to midwicket brings up the 50 stand from 98 balls. Some way short of their 209 in Rajkot but still, it’s a solid start. 9.34am GMT 30th over: India 87-1 (Pujara 16, Vijay 43) In his last 10 innings, Vijay has only gone past 50 once - his century in the first Test at Rajkot - but of those other nine innings this is only the second time he’s properly got in, so India will be expecting a big score from him now. He drills Rashid down the ground for a couple then climbs right into a full-toss, driving brilliantly, inside out over the top of extra-cover for four of the best. A single off the last and it might be time to give Rashid a break. 9.30am GMT 29th over: India 80-1 (Pujara 16, Vijay 36) A heart that’s full up like a landfill, a job that slowly kills you, bruises that won’t heal. You look so tired and pretty, bring down the government, they don’t, they don’t speak for us. I’ll take a quiet life, a handshake, some carbon monoxide, and no alarms and no surprises. 9.27am GMT 28th over: India 79-1 (Pujara 16, Vijay 35) Vijay nurdles a single and Pujara slashes a leg-break away for a couple, but the highlight is the gloriously soft-hands with which the latter defends the final ball, a classy leg-break, to slip. 9.23am GMT 27th over: India 76-1 (Pujara 14, Vijay 34) Perhaps a little later than we might have expected, Stokes is into the attack. His pace is excellent, pushing 90mph, and Vijay is becalmed although there’s no movement for the bowler. Stokes becomes the third England seamer to begin with a maiden. Nasser Hussain reckons we’re all wrong and thinks England should have left out Ball and picked an extra batsman. Unsurprsingly, given it’s Nass, that’s not a terrible idea. 9.18am GMT 26th over: India 76-1 (Pujara 14, Vijay 34) Two more to Pujara, turning an off-line googly round the corner and sending Stokes off on a long old chase to long-leg. These two are looking pretty settled now. 9.15am GMT 25th over: India 73-1 (Pujara 11, Vijay 34) Regarding that review in the previous over, I can only assume that it was the fact Pujara left the ball that seduced Cook into the review. As Nasser points out on the telly, Bairstow’s gloves were outside off when it hit the pad, so that should have been a clue. In this over, Vijay adds two with a nice push through extra cover off the last ball. 9.12am GMT 24th over: India 71-1 (Pujara 11, Vijay 32) Rashid gets a go from the other end. He beats Vijay with an absolutely pitch perfect leg-break, which is taken at slip by Stokes after drifting millimetres past the outside edge and glancing off Bairstow’s gloves. After some consideration Cook decides against reviewing, rightly so I reckon. That’ll stick in the batsman’s head at least. There is a review from the final ball, after a single and a two had ticked the scoreboard over, but it’s not a great one. 9.11am GMT Hawkeye has it turning past off-stump. 9.10am GMT Lbw shout against Pujara, given not out when he leaves a straight one. I don’t think it’s hitting. 9.06am GMT 23rd over: India 68-1 (Pujara 9, Vijay 31) The final session begins in fine fashion: Pujara driving a full Ball ball back down the ground and only a good diving half-stop by the bowler keeps it to two rather than four. Those are the first runs off the Notts man in this match and indeed series, and he induces the edge next ball. It drops short of slip though, where Anderson, I think, saves four with a good diving stop. Four leg-byes when he strays on to the thigh pad then an appeal from Bairstow and Ball - but no one else - when Pujara misses a woolly pull shot. Whew. 9.01am GMT We’re back. Or, more accurately, the players are. 8.58am GMT And Kristian Petterson is back on the spinners debate: “I agree up to a point. You expect spinners to do lions share on this wicket but, say Stokes only bowls 10 overs - I’d suggest he’s had a light shift for a test innings. The key though, as you say with regards to Leach, it’s not quantity but quality. Third spinner just to have a third spinner is no philosophy at all - they need to be good enough to be there. So, in conclusion - you’re correct.” Yep I think we’re in agreement now. 8.56am GMT Bit of news: Paul Reiffel will not stand in the remainder of this Test. 8.49am GMT Exactly. @danlucas86 You're right about 3 spinners... If we had Ashwin on the bench we'd play him, but no point playing Batty and then not bowl him. 8.42am GMT 22nd over: India 62-1 (Pujara 7, Vijay 31) This is probably going to be the last over before tea. Vijay works the first ball past short-leg for a single then Pujara flicks a full-toss down to mid-on for the same. The former is struck on the pad a couple of balls later albeit outside the line of off. That prompts a change of angle and Moeen bowls the final two balls of the session from round the wicket. That’s tea, with India 338 runs behind. England’s session, just, that, albeit on account of their efforts with bat rather than ball. 8.38am GMT 21st over: India 60-1 (Pujara 6, Vijay 30) It might be my rubbish eyes, but I reckon I’ve just spotted the tiniest hint of reverse swing there for Ball. He carries on aping Anderson with a second maiden on the spin. On two spinners, Kristian Petterson reckons: “Guess we’ll see what the over split is at the end of the innings/match - if Ali and Rashid have bowled 40 overs each and the 3rd/4th seamers 10 each.” 8.35am GMT 20th over: India 60-1 (Pujara 6, Vijay 30) Moeen continues, with eight minutes or so until tea by my reckoning. Pujara takes one from the over. Being an England fan, you can't help thinking these loose shots would've gone to a fielder in our innings @DanLucas86 Such is our lot. Bah! 8.31am GMT 19th over: India 59-1 (Pujara 5, Vijay 30) We’re getting a bowling change now, in fact: England’s latest all-rounder (ahem) Jake Ball is on. I like Ball, although I can’t pinpoint what exactly about him it is I rate. “Good cricketer,” Hussain calls him but he looks exactly that and little more. I guess it’s just instinct that’s telling me he’ll do well. His shoulder, which he hurt while batting, looks fine now. He begins with a maiden. 8.27am GMT 18th over: India 59-1 (Pujara 5, Vijay 30) Not for the first time, Vijay misses out on a rank full-toss, which he can only sweep behind square leg for a single. Four off the over, all in singles, nonetheless. We’re getting a bowling change soon. 8.23am GMT 17th over: India 55-1 (Pujara 3, Vijay 28) More luck for Vijay! A wild slog goes straight up and has Cook haring towards long-on, but the ball drops beyond the England captain and dribbles over the rope. Later on, he misses with a wafty slog-sweep. Since the loss of his opening partner he’s looked as comfortable as a man sat on a leather sofa in shorts with the heating on full. Still, he’s got some shots in the locker and he nails a full one back over Rashid’s head for a flat six! 8.20am GMT 16th over: India 45-1 (Pujara 3, Vijay 18) Pujara, the new man and one in great touch, gets off the mark by rocking back and cutting against the spin, behind point for two runs as comfortable as you’ll see. The second of those is his 1,000th against England in Test cricket, in 13 matches, at almost 48. The final ball nearly brings something that might look like a chance of a run-out if you squint, when Vijay thinks he wants a second run that was never on. Pujara tells him as much. 8.17am GMT 15th over: India 41-1 (Pujara 0, Vijay 17) Now Vijay is a lucky man: he looks to lift Rashid against the spin - I think he might have been expecting a googly - over mid-on but gets a leading edge that loops up high but drops short of the man at mid-off. “Still early days to get too despondent, no?” wrote Kristian Petterson before the wicket. “England were 230 for 2 and wickets terms to fall in clusters, especially at Wankhede, it seems. Then again, only 2 spinners does already seem an oversight. Ach, alright... DOOMED!” 8.13am GMT 14th over: India 39-1 (Vijay 15) Sky are showing a replay of Panesar’s six for 81 here four years ago, which is serving only to cause fans to lament England’s spin bowling options now. Rahul is a touch lucky when he top-edges a premeditated sweep over Jennings at short leg - surely he’s too tall to field there? - but then, a couple of balls later, Moeen makes your OBOer look a bit foolish with a lovely lovely wicket. 8.12am GMT Great ball from Moeen, tossed up and Rahul looks to drive against the spin. The ball spins back viciously and crashes into the woodwork. 8.07am GMT 13th over: India 37-0 (Rahul 23, Vijay 14) I suppose the good news for England is that this is vindicating their decision not to pick a third spinner. A single from what I expect to be one of several forgettable overs in this spell. 8.02am GMT 12th over: India 36-0 (Rahul 22, Vijay 14) Another filthy short ball, albeit from Moeen this time, and Vijay rocks back to hammer it to the fence at extra cover. I have to come up with a “ball of the day” for tomorrow’s panel in the paper and it’s safe to say that nothing in this spell is going into my notebook. That’s drinks . Lee Smith writes: “As I am at work (though not working, yet) could you advise if the pitch is doing anything or is it time to give the Lanky DOOMED klaxon a good airing?” 7.58am GMT 11th over: India 32-0 (Rahul 22, Vijay 10) Ah that’s lovely from Rahul, rocking back to a slightly short leg-break and caressing it behind point for four. He follows this with a curious leave, going down on one knee to sweep and then periscoping his bat up out the way. “A Courtney Walsh leave”, Mike Atherton calls it. 7.55am GMT 10th over: India 26-0 (Rahul 17, Vijay 9) It’s probably too early to worry, but India’s batsmen are having little trouble working Moeen around on a pitch that’s likely to get easier for batting on as it slows up. Just one from the over, mind. Have we talked about the ODI squad yet? It seems harsh that ODI form got Duckett into the Test squad and now his struggles there have seen him dropped from the ODI squad. And lord knows Bairstow could do with a rest. 7.52am GMT 9th over: India 25-0 (Rahul 16, Vijay 9) In fact it’s a double change: Rashid is on for Jimmy. I was just about to write that there’s a case for thinking the leggie is now England’s No1 spinner but Rahul is less impressed: he looks at a floaty, full first ball and drills it back over the bowler’s head for a brutal four before flaying the next through the covers for a single. Not much turn for Rashid out there. 7.49am GMT 8th over: India 20-0 (Rahul 11, Vijay 9) Cheers Simon, hello all. A change of OBOer coincides with/brings (you choose) a change of bowler as Moeen replaces Woakes. Vijay gets a couple of nice runs by opening up his wrists and driving through cover. 7.45am GMT 7th over: India 12-0 (Rahul 6, Vijay 6) Bapu Nadkarni can rest easy - Anderson’s run of consecutive maidens is over. It took 23 overs for India to score off him, as Vijay rolls the ball square and runs a single, and then Rahul drives nicely past cover for four. At which point, I’m going to hand over to Dan Lucas. You can email him here or tweet him here . Bye! 7.40am GMT 6th over: India 11-0 (Rahul 6, Vijay 5) And Woakes gets in on the maiden act. The second over apart, 29 of the 30 deliveries bowled have been dots. 7.35am GMT 5th over: India 11-0 (Rahul 6, Vijay 5) Three overs in, Anderson is yet to concede a run. “Good performance by England so far but it remains to be seen whether it is definitive,” writes Brian Withington. “I fear that if we take all 10 by spin like India did then we may be looking at a first innings deficit though. Great to see Buttler demonstrating the merits of using him at 7 as a specialist batsman. Kudos to selectors for resisting the temptation to play him above Bairstow in the order just because he’s not keeping wicket.” 7.32am GMT 4th over: India 11-0 (Rahul 6, Vijay 5) Rahul’s first boundary of the day, like Vijay’s, comes from a nicely-controlled punch past mid-off. This, meanwhile, is quite the coincidence: Update - Runs scored by Jos Buttler at his two home grounds in 2016: Old Trafford: 186 Wankhede Stadium: 186 https://t.co/RcvMH1keLz 7.28am GMT 3rd over: India 7-0 (Rahul 2, Vijay 5) Anderson has already bowled as many maidens in this innings as India’s seamers did between them in England’s. Meanwhile Rahul has only played in one Test this series, the second in Visakhapatnam, when he got 0 in the first innings and 10 in the second, which puts some pressure on him here. 7.24am GMT 2nd over: India 7-0 (Rahul 2, Vijay 5) Murali Vijay sends Woakes’ first delivery racketing past mid-off off the middle of the bat for four, lovely timing. 7.19am GMT 1st over: India 0-0 (Rahul 0, Vijay 0) A maiden from Anderson to get things under way. “This is interesting batting line up for India,” writes Mahendra Killedar. “Their 6,7,8 & 9 are kind of All Rounders in these conditions. Should do well.” This, meanwhile, is uncanny: England's first inns totals in last 3 Tests at Wankhede: 400 in 2006 - WON 413 in 2012 - WON 400 in 2016 - ??? #IndvsEng 7.14am GMT The players trot back onto the turf. What can England’s seamers do on this surface? It’s time to find out! 7.06am GMT A slightly above-par score from England. Ashwin and Jadeja share the wickets between them, but England will need their seamers to contribute. Intriguing times. 7.04am GMT Buttler tries to send this out of the ground as well, misses it completely and it hits middle stump. 7.03am GMT 130th over: England 400-9 (Buttler 76, Anderson 0) Ashwin bowls, and Buttler fetches it and hits it, with an ear-pleasing pok, out of the ground and down the road. A new ball is fetched. He then blocks a few and works the fifth ball of the over to deep point for a single to take England to 400. Anderson deals with the last. 6.58am GMT 129th over: England 393-9 (Buttler 69, Anderson 0) Turns out Buttler’s not in such a hurry. He gets a couple with a sweep, and then a single to long on to leave Anderson with one to face, which he deals with well. 6.56am GMT 128th over: England 390-9 (Buttler 66, Anderson 0) This is now Buttler’s (joint) third-longest Test innings, and he celebrates by advancing down the pitch and driving to mid on for an easy single, as he does. Anderson survives the final ball but probably won’t be here long on this surface, and if England are going to reach 400 Buttler will probably need to score quite big, quite soon. 6.53am GMT Ball recovers, continues, and is gone two balls later! Ashwin’s delivery gives him no space whatsoever, he tries to work it square and it flicks a glove on its way into Patel’s. 6.49am GMT 127th over: England 388-8 (Buttler 65, Ball 31) And Jadeja continues, so spin at both ends. Ball hits a single off the last, then drops his bat and doubles over in apparent pain, worryingly. A physio comes on and sets to work on his left shoulder. You don't judge a pitch till both teams have had a dig but this feels like a match winning 1st innings for England .. #INDvENG 6.46am GMT 126th over: England 387-8 (Buttler 65, Ball 30) The fifth over with the second new ball and Ashwin delivers it. The batsmen take a single each. 6.42am GMT The players are coming back out. It was England’s morning, in the end. Who will have the better afternoon? Morning @Simon_Burnton . 385-8? I'll take that. Listening to Haseeb on TMS. What a wonderfully rounded young man he is. A future star is here 6.40am GMT England are just15 runs away from the big four-oh-oh, and reaching that would be a psychological boost/blow, depending on who you’re supporting. Meanwhile, how old were you when you learned you’ve got to go through adverse times and physical pain? If an 80-year-old said it, I’d nod sagely and agree with him. From a 19-year-old, though, it sounds rather sad. Hasseb Hameed: "You've got to go through adverse times & physical pain. That's something I learned at a young age." https://t.co/osxIlZx5Om pic.twitter.com/H7IdBusTcD 6.17am GMT One of the talking points of the morning was the decision to overrule the on-field umpire and give Ben Stokes out, taken by Chettithody Shamshuddin, who is the stand-in TV umpire and didn’t seem entirely certain about what he was supposed to be doing (though it’s agreed that he probably got the decision right, one way or another). As he wrestled with the decision, we heard him ask, “What do you think, Adam?” We don’t know who Adam is, or what he said. Smokie, it’s over to you ... 6.04am GMT This partnership, of 51 runs and counting, is invaluable for England. From 230-2 they’d have wanted nothing less than 450, but from 320-7 this has to be considered a success, particularly given the state of the pitch. Anyway, that’s lunch. I’ll be back in a bit. 6.02am GMT 125th over: England 385-8 (Buttler 64, Ball 29) An over of spin before lunch, from Jadeja at Ball. It’s a maiden. The bowler appeals when the last ball flicks off Patel and is caught at slip, and but for the fact it missed the bat by at least three inches it was a decent shout. 5.58am GMT 124th over: England 385-8 (Buttler 64, Ball 29) Bhuvi bowls, and after a single from Ball, Buttler makes some space and flicks the ball to fine leg for four. A couple more singles takes this partnershiip past 50 runs, while at 42 deliveries, this is now the longest innings in Ball’s first-class career. 5.54am GMT 123rd over: England 378-8 (Buttler 59, Ball 27) Just a couple of singles here. A couple more overs to go before lunch, and if England lose no more wickets it’ll taste just fine. 5.49am GMT 122nd over: England 376-8 (Buttler 58, Ball 26) We’re into bonus time now. Bhuvi Kumar’s second delivery with the new ball is thundered past point by Ball for four, straight out the middle of the bat, with not a fielder in sight. That’s the highpoint of the over for Ball, though. He tries another drive later on, missing completely, and the final delivery of the over whistles perhaps six inches wide of off stump. “Don’t want to miss opportunity to be first to see the humor,” writes Mahendra Killedar, “but what kind of ball is this Ball? A pink one or red one?” 5.45am GMT 121st over: England 372-8 (Buttler 58, Ball 22) Buttler skips down the pitch and drives gently to long-on for an easy single, his favourite shot against spin. Then Ball skips down the pitch and tries to drive through the covers, a little overambitiousperhaps, and edges hard - but not quite hard enough to get caught - to square leg. At the end of which, the second new ball is taken, with Ball on strike. 5.42am GMT 120th over: England 368-8 (Buttler 57, Ball 19) Ball jabs down his bat at the last moment to get it in the way of the first ball, which stays low and straight, and then slog-sweeps the second for four. Then he gets a couple more with a leading edge into the covers and some good running. Jake Ball's highest first-class score is 49 not out vs Warwickshire, August 2015. He scored those runs from 20 balls. #INDvENG 5.39am GMT 119th over: England 362-8 (Buttler 57, Ball 13) The ball hits Ball in the pad and loops to short leg, who catches. India appeal again, but it surely would have cleared the stumps. Ball takes a single off the last ball of Jayant’s over, and certainly isn’t being protected now. 5.35am GMT 118th over: England 360-8 (Buttler 56, Ball 12) Buttler gets a couple off the first, hit to point, though only just: he loses his bat while running, and though he’s well inside his crease when the ball is returned to Patel and the bails come off, his foot only touched ground a fraction of a second beforehand. 5.31am GMT 117th over: England 357-8 (Buttler 53, Ball 12) Jayant comes on, and a single off his first ball takes Buttler to his half-century. This is already his fourth-longest Test innings, at 108 deliveries and counting. Another 40 balls would make it his No1. 5.27am GMT 116th over: England 352-8 (Buttler 49, Ball 11) Two slips, a short leg and a silly point in place, and Ball takes them all out of play, cutting square for four, hitting to long on for a couple, and then tickling to fine leg for four more. That will give Ball a bit of confidence, and takes England past 350. 5.23am GMT 115th over: England 342-8 (Buttler 49, Ball 1) This time Buttler takes a single off the second ball, giving Ashwin four goes at Ball. This time there’s a leg slip, a slip and two short legs, two more close fielders than Buttler has to deal with. No matter, Ball pushes through midwicket for an easy single. Buttler, though, can get nothing from the remainder of the over, and now Jadeja can really have a go at Ball. 5.18am GMT 114th over: England 340-8 (Buttler 48, Ball 0) Buttler reverse-sweeps Jadeja’s first delivery for four, and then the second hits his pad just outside the line, prompting another loud appeal. The third is hit to third man and Buttler wants two, but gets only one. Ball has half an over to face, and immediately there are two slips, a gully and a silly point piling on the pressure. Ball defends the first, he defends the second, and he goes after the third, edging high and fast to Kohli at first slip, who can’t hold on to what would have been a miracle catch. 5.15am GMT 113th over: England 335-8 (Buttler 43, Ball 0) Buttler faces the first five deliveries of Ashwin’s over for a single, leaving Ball to face one. India have a slip, a leg slip, a short leg and a silly point crowding round the bat, but Ball defends it well enough. 5.11am GMT 112th over: England 334-8 (Buttler 42, Ball 0) The ball spins past Rashid’s bat and India appeal. They appeal loud, and they appeal long, and they appeal in numbers. Marais Erasmus isn’t impressed, and they have no remaining reviews. All a bit strange: it didn’t look particularly close to the bat to me. No matter, perhaps the appeal unnerves the batsman, and a dot ball later he’s gone. 5.09am GMT Rashid leaves one that goes straight and clips the bails on its way through! 5.04am GMT 111th over: England 333-7 (Buttler 41, Rashid 4) Ashwin bowls, Buttler edges but the ball drops short of slip. Then Rashid edges the last towards short leg, who gets fingertips to the ball but can’t hold it. Fun(ish) fact: In 2016 Jos Buttler has played as many games at the Wankhede Stadium as he has at Old Trafford (seven) 5.00am GMT 110th over: England 332-7 (Buttler 40, Rashid 4) Buttler, who might as well try to score some runs while he’s still got someone at the other end to score them with, greets both of Jadeja’s first two deliveries with a reverse sweep, the first sending the ball straight to the man at point, and the second missing said man and reaching the rope. Jos Buttler has come down the track to 14 balls in his innings, more than the rest of the England batting line up combined. #INDvENG 4.57am GMT 109th over: England 325-7 (Buttler 33, Rashid 4) Rashid gets off the mark with a boundary, though not one he knew a great deal about, the ball flicking off the bat and running away past leg slip. 4.54am GMT 108th over: England 320-7 (Buttler 32, Rashid 0) A wicket maiden from Jadeja. It’s been a difficult first hour for England, but difficult as the conditions are having been 230-2, they won’t be satisfied with their current total. 4.51am GMT Jadeja gets the ball to spin back, and there’s another slight edge here, and after Patel takes the catch another loud appeal. Umpire Erasmus doesn’t immediately raise his finger, but Woakes doesn’t bother waiting for the review, and heads to the dressing room. 4.48am GMT 107th over: England 320-6 (Buttler 32, Woakes 11) Another couple of singles, both batsmen sending the ball rolling towards long-on. 4.45am GMT 106th over: England 318-6 (Buttler 31, Woakes 10) England are happy to keep the scoreboard ticking gently onwards, and are content with a couple of singles. Woakes leaves one which goes straight and even so doesn’t miss the stumps by much. 4.42am GMT 105th over: England 316-6 (Buttler 30, Woakes 9) Woakes gets a thick edge on the first ball, and Kohli chases after it as it runs towards third man, catches up with it, and slides on one knee to collect. But instead of sliding along the ground his leg goes into it, sending him sprawling. He looks pained as he gingerly gets to his feet, but is able to continue. This surface is tough to bat on and dangerous to field on. Still, it’s nice if you’re a spin bowler. 4.37am GMT 104th over: England 311-6 (Buttler 28, Woakes 6) One run from Jadeja’s over. Woakes misjudges one slower delivery, mistimes his shot but he edges the ball straight into the ground. Most five-fors in a two-year period in Tests M Muralitharan - 14 (2000-01) M Muralitharan - 14 (2006-07) R Ashwin - 14 (2015-16) #INDvENG 4.34am GMT 103rd over: England 310-6 (Buttler 28, Woakes 5) Ashwin has dealt with all the left-handers now. One run from his 33rd over of the innings thus far. 4.31am GMT 102nd over: England 309-6 (Buttler 28, Woakes 4) The ball is turning here, hard and often. It’s turning like a turntable spinning Dead or Alive. 4.31am GMT On first viewing I thought it was pretty obviously going down leg side, but HawkEye shows it just kissing the outside of the stump on its way through. Not enough to overturn the on-field decision, though. 4.30am GMT Erasmus turns down the lbw appeal, but India want a second opinion! 4.27am GMT 101st over: England 308-6 (Buttler 28, Woakes 3) Woakes hits high down the ground, but he doesn’t get enough on it. Pujara at mid-on has to run towards the rope, keep an eye on the ball dropping over his shoulder, and get his hands in the right place. Well, two out of three ain’t bad. He does the running and the watching, but not the catching. And Pujara is immediately moved to somewhere less important. 4.24am GMT 100th over: England 303-6 (Buttler 28, Woakes 0) Woakes, from the last ball of the 99th over, and Buttler, from the third ball of this one, have both hit the one close fielder in front of the bat, Karun Nair, pretty hard in the last couple of minutes. Still, no pain, no gain, eh? 4.21am GMT 99th over: England 303-6 (Buttler 26, Woakes 0) And of course, the TV umpire is only there because of Paul Reiffel’s injury and might not be quite as expert in the intricacies of his role as we might expect. Anyway, Buttler now needs to take charge of the England innings, and judging by the way he pulls Ashwin for four he knows it. 4.18am GMT 98th over: England 298-6 (Buttler 21, Woakes 0) Really, given that we know the bat hit the ground, and that it must have made a sound when it did so, and there was only one sound on Ultra-edge, he shouldn’t have been given out. Having said that, the ball did seem to change line slightly on its way past the bat. 4.14am GMT 97th over: England 297-6 (Buttler 20) Ashwin’s first delivery turns a long way, hits Buttler’s pad and flies into the air. There’s a half-hearted appeal when the ball is safely caught, but no dice. Then his last brings another appeal, more successful this time. 4.14am GMT Ultra-edge shows the very faintest of noises as the ball passes the bat, and Stokes has gone! The batsman’s incredulous, believing perhaps that the noise came from the bat hitting the ground at that very same instant. 4.11am GMT The umpire didn’t see any contact between bat and ball as it spun to slip, but India insist it happened. Who’s right? 4.08am GMT 96th over: England 296-5 (Stokes 31, Buttler 20) Stokes isn’t cowed by his let-off in the previous over, and against Jadeja he tries another sweep, nails it this time and the ball is sent skimming through midwicket for four. 4.05am GMT 95th over: England 290-5 (Stokes 26, Buttler 19) Ravi Ashwin gets day two under way. Buttler gets a single to long on, and then Stokes top-edges a slog-sweep that spends a long time in the air before plopping safely to earth. “That’s just bad captaincy,” rages Naser Hussain, doing the TV commentary and raging about how distant the fielder was. 3.59am GMT This was the scene outside the Wankhede the best part of an hour ago. I’ve got no idea how they’ve managed to let so few people in since then. Crazy queues outside Wankhede Stadium. The box office says day 2 tickets have been sold out. The line has extended till churchgate station. pic.twitter.com/HoW8xhta9n 3.58am GMT Out come the umpires, with Paul Reiffel still out with head-knock. The stands are pretty empty, but not for long. Crazy queues outside Wankhede once again. Drums and all... should be a good crowd today too. India to bat sometime eventually. #IndvEng 3.45am GMT Hello world! Well there’s a time and a place for a brilliantly crafted preamble, but 3.30am isn’t it. And Sky are showing an interview with Kelly Holmes that’s really quite moving. Still, the cricket should be worth being conscious for, delicately poised as it is. England, with a current tally of 288, are about 120 runs away from happiness; India, having lost the toss but taken five wickets, are a good first hour away from being pretty pleased with themselves. Anyway, and most importantly, hello! 2.44pm GMT Simon will be here shortly. Here’s Vic Marks’ report from day one : Alastair Cook has spent four years waiting for a decent opening partner and then all of a sudden two of them come along in the space of three weeks. Keaton Jennings is the latest, welcome arrival. Under a cloudless sky he became the first England player since Billy Griffith in 1948 in Trinidad to score a century on his first day as a Test cricketer – and we can be fairly confident that Griffith did not reach those coveted three figures with a reverse sweep. In the short term Jennings’s admirable 112 was the foundation of England’s 288 for five, a fair total on the first day of a Mumbai Test but by no means an impregnable one. As ever on this excellent surface there are runs to be scored early in the match. The ball bounces more here in a manner that encourages strokemakers; it also turns increasingly and the edges are more likely to carry. Mumbai is a long way from Chester-le-Street in very many ways but Jennings found a method to prosper in alien conditions. Continue reading...

Australia win by 117 runs at the Melbourne Cricket Ground David Warner stars in Australian innings with another century 10.21am GMT And Australia wins by 117, if you must know. The run chase only reinforces what an innings that was from Warner, who timed his run well, kept his patience, and didn’t try to hit his way out of trouble until it was time to attack at the back end of the afternoon. He held things together, with some laboured but stubborn support from George Bailey and Travis Head especially. New Zealand looked well in the hunt early, with Tom Latham timing them well and Martin Guptill hanging about. But Latham gave up a soft dismissal, Kane Williamson missed a straight one, and Guptill gave up his wicket in lamentable fashion. With the top three gone, the rest were always likely to struggle. Related: David Warner rescues Australia with another ton in win over New Zealand 10.14am GMT Whooooooaaaaaa Nelly. That is it. But what a way to end it. Cummins returned for a new spell, Boult tried to glide him to third man, thought he’d got enough of it, but Smith at second slip took another blinder. Launched to his right, airborne, one hand, and plucked the catch from absolutely nowhere. Magnifique. 10.12am GMT 36th over: New Zealand 147-9 (Ferguson 4, Boult 1) Boult off the mark! With a stylish whip to midwicket. Don’t mind if I do. Ferguson got faulkner away to fine leg as well. Definitely his zone. 10.09am GMT 35th over: New Zealand 145-9 (Ferguson 3, Boult 0) Well, they manage to survive Mitchell Starc. He gets 3-34 from his 10 overs. A single glanced by Ferguson is the only score from the last, as Boult blocks out the last three balls with his own usual unique style of defensive play. @GeoffLemonSport serious thoughts on why khawaja isn't in the odi team? is it just this relatively low stakes series? 10.04am GMT 34th over: New Zealand 144-9 (Ferguson 2, Boult 0) To be fair, even the batsmen were struggling to time it off this pitch. Southee bludgeoned a pull shot that barely got past the bowler. Ferguson fended a short ball away as awkwardly as can be, stole a single to square. Then Southee tried to swing one over cover that only went lamely up and down for a catch in the circle. But a bit of style comes along to close the over, as Ferguson uppercuts smoothly down to third man for a single. 9.59am GMT Out, out brief candle. 9.57am GMT 33rd over: New Zealand 141-8 (Southee 3, Ferguson 0) Smith really wants to get out of here. Starc hits Ferguson on the wristband of the glove, which then flies away to slip where Smith holds the catch. But the batsman’s hand was well off the glove at the time, so he’s spared on the DRS video. I have absolutely no idea how he just survived an over from Starc. Backed away just about every ball, poked hopelessly at most of them. How does the best bowler in the world at hitting the stumps just decide to stop hitting the stumps for an over? Maiden, any rate. 9.55am GMT 32nd over: New Zealand 141-8 (Southee 3, Ferguson 0) Ahahahahahaha. Oh, my. Six balls in that Faulkner over, four of them Tim Southee charged. One of them he scored off, the last of the over, which he slogged mightily over midwicket for the princely sum of two runs. A Southee innings: full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. 9.51am GMT 31st over: New Zealand 139-8 (Southee 1) Well, this over is eventful. Southee nicks a single. Starc is still trying to close this match out. Santner gets a full ball and flicks it beautifully away over midwicket for four. Next ball he backs away to make room, Starc follows him with a shorter bal, and it flies off the outside edge and over the bails for four more. Less beautiful. Next ball, for a second you think he has four more, as the ball flies away through fine third man. Then you realise that it has ricocheted there off the pad, before which is truck him right in front of his stumps, and he’s leg before wicket. Last rites, time for a Southee swing. 9.43am GMT 30th over: New Zealand 130-7 (Santner 7, Southee 0) Santner, studious, watches Faulkner’s first three deliveries, then gets one nice and straight and guides it downthrough fine leg for four. Nice bit of timing. Still 135 runs short with the three wickets in hand. 9.41am GMT 29th over: New Zealand 126-7 (Santner 3, Southee 0) Starc likes his chances of finishing off Southee, but at first the edge falls short of Wade, and the next three full balls are kept out by an unusually studious New Zealand lower-order batsman. 9.38am GMT Nope. Scrap that. No building. Just demolition. It helps when you can call on Mitchell Starc as a captain. Munro flicks the first ball away to midwicket and gets a couple, as it was heading down leg. That must have made him think he was seeing them better than he was, because he has a lavish whoosh across the line at the next ball too. Only problem is the next ball is a far better yorker, on a slightly straighter line, and it demolishes leg stump. Poor shot, good bowling. 9.35am GMT 28th over: New Zealand 124-6 (Munro 18, Santner 3) Smashed down the ground for four! Munro has had enough of Head, so he makes room and batters a flighted ball dead straight and high for four. Head drops short for the rest of the over, and the batsmen are able to take three singles through cover and point, shifting back to give themselves room to force the ball away. Sensible stuff. Just need to keep building like this. 9.32am GMT 27th over: New Zealand 117-6 (Munro 12, Santner 2) Munro’s timing them alright, he just can’t beat the field. He’s gettinga bit annoyed. Two singles from Hazlewood’s over. What a disappointing slide after that good start. Maybe we could red-card New Zealand’s batsmen after their performances this series. Here’s an entertaining take on the new red-card law from Ben Pobjie, if you have a minute. 9.28am GMT 26th over: New Zealand 115-6 (Munro 11, Santner 1) Munro unsure about how to approach Head now. Bashes a single downt he ground. Santner runs one smoothly towards point. Really can’t afford to be giving Travis Head two-run overs though. 9.27am GMT 25th over: New Zealand 113-6 (Munro 10, Santner 0) Santner to the crease, a cool customer with the bat as he’s shown in some excellent innings in his young career, but this is a big ask in front of him today. Not impossible, given Munro’s striking power, but this pair are really the last genuine hope that New Zealand have. They would need to add the best part of the next hundred runs. 9.25am GMT Head gets his own back, as Hazlewood bangs in short, de Grandhomme bangs away with the pull shot, and Head bangs into the ground as he runs in from deep square leg. The umpires check the replay to make sur the ball didn’t slip through his fingers and touch grass, but they decide the’re happy with the way things look, and the batsman is on his way. 9.24am GMT 24th over: New Zealand 113-5 (Munro 10, de Grandhomme 11) That’s one way to approach it! Colin de Grandhomme take a de grand step down the pitch and launches a de grand shot over the de grand sightscreen. He sent that ball all the way de grand home. A few singles and Head’s over goes for 10. 9.20am GMT 23rd over: New Zealand 103-5 (Munro 8, de Grandhomme 3) Hazlewood returns, and is immediately into his own form of tidiness. A couple of singles to Munro, one to de Grandhomme. So hard for a batting side to know how to approach a chase from situations like this. 9.17am GMT 22nd over: New Zealand 100-5 (Munro 6, de Grandhomme 2) You so often see it with batsmen facing part-time spinners. They want so desperately to get on with things. In this case Watling tried to smack Head away three different times, then nailed a sweep shot for four and felt quite good about it, then tried to repeat the does and got himself out. The large frame of de Grandhomme comes out next and immediately takes a couple of runs to fine leg. 9.13am GMT What a day this is becoming for Travis Head. Watling tried to sweep, missed, was hit while kneeling. Umpire LlllllllLlllllong I think drew the conclusion that the ball had pitched outside leg. Smith came straight up to head and asked i f he thought the ball was going straight on. Head said it was, and Smith referred. Wants to close this match out as early as possible. The review had no Hot Spot available, but Snicko showed no edge, and the tracker showed three red lights superimposed over the batsman. If he had a bike, he’d be on it. Would make the walk shorter, too. The MCG is so big. 9.09am GMT 21st over: New Zealand 94-4 (Munro 6, Watling 4) Another absurdly tight over from Starc. One leg bye and one single. He’s bowled six overs for 22 runs today. 9.06am GMT 20th over: New Zealand 92-4 (Munro 6, Watling 3) That’s more like it, New Zealand. Head bowling, and they work a single from every ball of his over. No muss, no fuss, and if they just did that from ehre on in, they would win quite comfortably. Match referee teaches Smith and Williamson how to moonwalk. https://t.co/MhB7YnfXJo pic.twitter.com/IeBJnOp3G8 9.03am GMT 19th over: New Zealand 86-4 (Munro 3, Watling 0) Mixed bag of an over from Starc. A couple of slower balls, another attempt at the yorker, a couple that beat Munro. He utterly creams one drive, but Head at cover makes a miracle save. It ends up being a maiden. 8.58am GMT 18th over: New Zealand 86-4 (Munro 3, Watling 0) It’s a great time for Travis Head to be bowling, with the opposition having to defend so hard. Two singles and a leg bye are all that results from the over. 8.55am GMT 17th over: New Zealand 83-4 (Munro 1) Everything Sniffer Smith touches is turning to Aussie canary gold (and don’t you forget it). He brings back Mitch Starc, going for the kill. 8.50am GMT 16th over: New Zealand 83-3 (Nicholls 3, Munro 1) Out comes Colin Munro, shipping the filthiest handlebar moustache you’ve ever seen. He played some wonderfully inventive innings in the World T20, but hasn’t quite gelled at ODI level. Gets off the mark with a single to cover, then Nicholls cuts two and pushes one. Brilliant bowling change, four from Head’s first over. he’ll bowl plenty more tonight! 8.47am GMT That is some prescient shizz. Faulkner has a wicket with his last delivery, but Steve Smith drags him from the attack and asks Travis head to bowl. Commentators question why, Head sends down one ball, Guptill tries to munt it to the cover boundary but ends up lifting the shot and this time the catcher is in just the spot to leap up and reel it in. Shocking, shocking decision by the only remaining senior batsman on the night. 8.42am GMT 15th over: New Zealand 79-2 (Guptill 34, Nicholls 0) Williamson gone last ball of Faulkner’s over, and Guptill nearly follows from the first ball of Cummins’. Leans back for the cut shot, can’t keep it down, and Smith only just misses it at gully. Gets a single through square, and Nicholls sees out the rest of the over. 8.40am GMT 14th over: New Zealand 74-2 (Guptill 29) The DRS can’t save Williamson - referred as much because of his importance to the team’s effort in this run chase as much as any true belief that it would be overturned. Massive breakthrough for Faulkner, who was man of the match against this team on this ground in the World Cup final of 2015. This ball is pitching well outside off stump, angling in, and Williamson tried to turn it to leg but was beaten for pace, struck high on the paid but the ball was dying off the pitch and would have struck high up his leg stump. 8.34am GMT 13th over: New Zealand 71-1 (Guptill 27, Williamson 12) They’re getting enough deliveries to put away too. Williamson glides a single to third, Guptill glances four to fine. Then two more runs in the former method, one more run in the latter. The run rate’s a very healthy five and a half. The partnership is now worth 27. 8.31am GMT 12th over: New Zealand 63-1 (Guptill 20, Williamson 11) They’re working the angles, this pair. Faulkner bowls straight and gets picked off for a pair of singles to leg, then gives more width and is picked off through cover for a single by Guptill, then a square-driven boundary by Williamson. The captain follows up with a sharp single after a defensive prod to end the over. 8.26am GMT 11th over: New Zealand 55-1 (Guptill 18, Williamson 5) Williamson just waiting for the kinds of delivery that suit his purpose. Gets one that he likes from Cummins, and drives the straighter ball through long-on for four. Then he runs a single to third man, and Guptill thinks that’s such a good idea that he does likewise. 8.22am GMT 10th over: New Zealand 48-1 (Guptill 17, Williamson 0) James Faulkner is on early in the day as well, as the Mexican Wave starts up among the now better-attended lower deck. (“We are gonna build a wave, a tremendous wave, you better believe it folks, and we’re gonna make Mexico pay for it.”) Kane Williamson is in the middle, and they’ll need all of his timing today, on this pitch that is just holding up a bit and making that part of the game difficult. KW isn’t on sttike this over though, as Guptill absorbs Faulkner including glancing him fine for four. 8.18am GMT 9th over: New Zealand 44-1 (Guptill 13) Well, we saw Australia’s first two wickets fall to catches at square leg, and now Latham has given it up in the same way. Length ball from Cummins, and Latham just didn’t get quite far enough forward to it. Stayed back, worked it square but let it get quite big on him, so it lobbed in the air, Simple take, he played it blind rather than thinking about where his field was and where his gaps might be. 8.14am GMT 8th over: New Zealand 42-0 (Guptill 12, Latham 27) Good battle here between Latham and Hazlewood. Guptill gets three runs to start the over, pulling the ball down the ground, after which Latham is moving around the crease, trying to drive square, then to pull, and eventually has to settle for dinking a single to leg. 8.12am GMT 7th over: New Zealand 38-0 (Guptill 9, Latham 26) Comeback kid Patrick Cummins(back) gets the ball early for his first go, and settles into a rhythm pretty easily. A single to Latham, a brace and a single to Guptill, all deflected away on the on-side. The Netherlands cricket team has played 3 matches in 9 months. I reckon I've got another 20 years in me at this rate. 8.04am GMT 6th over: New Zealand 34-0 (Guptill 6, Latham 25) They’re working the opening bowlers well, ticking along at more than five per over. Promising signs for the Kiwis. Latham eases a couple more to third man, flicks the run to midwicket, then Guptill faces Hazlewood for the first time today and pulls hissecond ball for a couple of runs into the expanse at long leg. Plenty of empty acres of grass out there, only two men in the deep for this early Powerplay. 8.01am GMT 5th over: New Zealand 29-0 (Guptill 4, Latham 22) Gorgeous shot. Guptill on the back foot, leans back a little, opens the blade and so neatly punches the ball through point. Three runs as it pulls up short of the long, long, long boundary down towards Punt Road. If there’s any place in Melbourne that deserves the appellation long, long, long, it’s goddamn Punt Road. 7.54am GMT 4th over: New Zealand 19-0 (Guptill 1, Latham 15) Four! What a shot from Latham on the straight drive. Chris Rogers, a fellow opening batsman, analyses it thus on ABC radio: that because Hazlewood had such a good line across the left-hander, Latham cut down that angle by walking forward out of his crease for that shot. That put the ball in a comfortable zone for him, and he was able to send it neatly down the ground. Then he gets a straighter ball thanks to the correction, and works it through midwicket for a couple, and later draws a wide down leg. He’s started beautifully, has Latham. 7.50am GMT 3rd over: New Zealand 12-0 (Guptill 1, Latham 9) Whoops, there goes Starc’s radar again. When he tries to swing balls into the pads, he often sends them merrily down the leg side instead. That’s what happens twice in this over, before he gets one on the correct side of the wicket and Latham drives it cleanly, hard into the ground, and sees it fly through a packed cover field on the bounce for four. Then a flick to midwicket. 7.48am GMT 2nd over: New Zealand 5-0 (Guptill 1, Latham 4) Here’s a turn-up - Hazlewood has started out looking even more dangerous than Starc. He’s moving the ball through the air as well, and moving it a bit off the seam, and using the angle across to make the left-handed Latham uncomfortable. All that Tom can do is glide a single from the final ball of a testing early over. 7.43am GMT 1st over: New Zealand 4-0 (Guptill 1, Latham 3) Here we go then. Mitchell Starc is immediately tailing the ball into the right-hander. Guptill jams one out for a single, Latham times one beuatifully through midwicket for three. 7.04am GMT Phew, that’s better. Not so bad as being told the target is Three Hundred and Infinity Lots. It still won’t be easy - this pitch has looked tricky to time shots on, and everyone struggled to some degree today except Warner. Even he had a fair few lucky moments when his big shots evaded the field, not to mention a couple of edges past the stumps. But if the New Zealand batsmen can keep their heads and build an innings, they should be able to threaten. Or it might be a night for Australia’s bowlers to earn their keep, rather than trundle down foregone-conclusion pies to be swallowed in the outfield. You’ll be back for the second innings in about half an hour with... me, Geoff Lemon, because I was a bad person in a former life and this is the reprisal the universe has settled on. Not so bad, it could have been eating all the doughnuts in the world. 7.00am GMT 50th over: Australia 264-8 (Starc 0) A majestic hand comes to an end from the last ball of the innings. First Warner hits his last couple of runs through point, then he drives a ball straight back to Boult, then the last ball he chips off a leading edge into the on-side, and lost sight of it. Instinct kicked in, and for a second he hesitated, wondering where it had gone, when the last ball of the innings meant he should have just been head down and sprinting. If he’d gone straight away, he would have made it, but the stutter gave Boult time to hare off after the ball, grab it in one hand, then spin around from about short cover and hurl down the non-striker’s stumps. Brilliant, fun, ridiculous stuff, exactly the kind of of thing that one-day cricket should be about, precisely because it doesn’t really matter. David Warner has played a gem for us here today. 6.55am GMT That’s alright, he saves his magic for the second innings of a match. Faulkner fails to clear long-off after smashing Boult straight for a two and a four. 6.52am GMT 49th over: Australia 256-5 (Warner 154, Faulkner 7) This is great bowling! Southee knows he has long square boundaries and a soft ball, so he sends down a series of cutters dug in short. The batsmen can’t get real purchase on their shots. Five singles, including another Warner top edge that doesn’t carry to the deep. Then from the last ball Warner absolutely sprints back for a second run he has no right to make! Halfway down the pitch he looked gone for all money, but in the end he made it so clearly that the umpire didn’t even go upstairs. What an athlete - in the 49th over, after batting all afternoon. This is bloody ridiculous. 6.47am GMT 48th over: Australia 249-5 (Warner 150, Faulkner 4) Boult starts well, keeping Faulkner on strike until the third ball of the over before conceding him a single. But with Warner facing, the bowler loses his line and length. Too short first, and Warner rocks back to uppercut to third man for four . Then one angled too far down leg, and it ricochets off the pad for four leg byes. You can't stop him, you can only hope to contain him! 150 for Warner! What a shot: https://t.co/YjlfLvMQ8S #AUSvNZ https://t.co/6LC80QbNgZ 6.44am GMT 47th over: Australia 240-5 (Warner 146, Faulkner 3) One thing you can say for Warner: he still has energy at the end of a long day’s batting like this. He’s utterly sprinting back for the second runs, one from a nice pull shot to square, one from a mangled version against a slow-ball bouncer that nearly carries to long-on. Southee’s variation there was good, but his yorker was less so, and with mid-off up, Warner clouted four over the top. He also runs a couple of singles, tries to belt a wide that he can’t reach, and plays a hook so enthusiastic that he falls over and nearly lands on his stumps, from which pose he complains to the umpire that a ball aimed at his head should have been called a wide. Quite the tour de force. 6.38am GMT 46th over: Australia 229-5 (Warner 137, Faulkner 2) It changes so quickly. New Zealand pull it back. Warner gets off strike after crossing while the ball was in the air, James Faulkner dobs a couple of runs to midwicket first ball, but Santner then bowls him two dot balls to finish the over. Now it’s New Zealand stopping this from getting away. 6.34am GMT Santner floats one down, Wade launches a slog-sweep, and it barely carries two thirds of the way to the boundary. #MCGSoBig 6.32am GMT 45th over: Australia 226-5 (Warner 136, Wade 14) Chest-high full toss from Ferguson. Not what you want. Less what you want when Matthew Wade carves a single from it, and brings David Warner on strike for the free hit. He almost middled it too... https://t.co/YjlfLvMQ8S #AUSvNZ https://t.co/MDaSdCFD7d 6.28am GMT 44th over: Australia 214-5 (Warner 128, Wade 11) Warner wants to get away now. Gets strike from Wade, then carves Boult through cover but can only get two. Then a single through cover. Wade gets a couple of his own to the leg-side, then has an absurd stroke of luck. Inside edges the ball, it spins into his back leg, then back onto his stumps. He turns and dives and tries to knock it away, misses with his bat, and watches helpless as the ball bounces into middle stump. Except... the bails don’t come off. Too heavy? Not enough velocity? Who knows. But he survives. Celebrates by smearing a run over Boult’s head. No zing #AUSvNZ pic.twitter.com/q4QfuKRis7 6.23am GMT 43rd over: Australia 207-5 (Warner 125, Wade 7) Not too sure about this - Munro is going to bowl another. You can get away with one over form that sort of bowler, but surely the batsmen will think they have his measure now. Yeah don't bowl there #AUSvNZ https://t.co/uWQNvr10Oz 6.18am GMT 42nd over: Australia 192-5 (Warner 112, Wade 5) What a shot! Warner gets the length he wants, switches the hands, and reverse-sweeps Santner for four. Then flicks two through the leg side. 6.15am GMT 41st over: Australia 185-5 (Warner 106, Wade 4) The next bowler is... Colin Munro? Ok then. He’s bowled nine overs in ODI cricket before in his career. Never taken a wicket. Does pretty well here! You’d barely even call it medium pace, but he manages to avoid giving the batsmen much room, and they only profit by four singles. 6.11am GMT 40th over: Australia 181-5 (Warner 104, Wade 2) Not a bad time for Matt Wade to be coming in, he can belt a late attack. Ten overs to launch. Australia needs Warner to go big here as well, though, with Marsh and Head and Bailey already gone. Wade watches out most of Santner’s over, nets a wide, then sweeps a couple from the last ball. Into the last ten... now. 6.09am GMT Makes it easy for the bowler! Head comes down the wicket, Santner is bowling left-arm around, the ball angles across Head and then straightens, evades his big swing, and crashes into the off bail. 6.06am GMT 39th over: Australia 178-4 (Warner 104, Head 37) Head ducks a Southee bouncer, then finds the field with a couple of big square shots. Eventually gets away with a brace of runs to deep square leg, then a single to third man. Only four from the over, but the partnership now worth 105. The fact that Head has made only 37 of those tells you how difficult he’s finding it. 6.04am GMT 38th over: Australia 174-4 (Warner 103, Head 34) What a ridiculous, absurd, stonking year from David Warner. He raises his seventh ODI century of the year by glancing Mitchell Santner through fine leg. 5.58am GMT 37th over: Australia 166-4 (Warner 97, Head 32) Gee, Travis Head is struggling. Warner gives him strike from Southee’s first ball, but the junior partner smears across the line and misses one, then slogs one in the air that just bounces in front of mid-off, at which point Head goes for a single that isn’t there, and should have been run out again had the throw not misses. Shambolic stuff. Two runs from five balls that over, but Southee mucks it up with a elg-side offering from the last, and Warner calmly palys the swivel-pull for four. 5.54am GMT 36th over: Australia 160-4 (Warner 92, Head 31) Santner is back, he’d only bowled four of his overs before this one, but his reintroduction goes alright as the batsmen collect five runs. 5.52am GMT 35th over: Australia 155-4 (Warner 88, Head 30) Colin de Grandhomme finishes up his day’s work with 2-50, not a bad return. The last over goes for seven, including a ludicrous flat-bat smear from Warner that very nearly puts a hole through umpire Nigel Llong at the non-striker’s end. 5.43am GMT 34th over: Australia 148-4 (Warner 82, Head 29) Another near run-out, as Head pushed wide of mid-off. They got the first sharp single, but the throw at the stumps went towards midwicket. Head switched around with a big turning circle and wanted to come back for the second, there was some slight hesitation, and had de Grandhomme’s thrown been close to the bails then Watling would have narrowly run Head out. As it is, they made it back for the second, and total five from the Ferguson over. 5.39am GMT 33rd over: Australia 143-4 (Warner 80, Head 26) Another tidy over from de Grandhomme, a couple of singles and a two from it. He’s bowled nine of his allotment now. 5.36am GMT 32nd over: Australia 139-4 (Warner 79, Head 23) Fortune favours the Dave. At least it does today. Warner gets width, has a big flay at it, and edges it past his off stump for four. Not content with one such ball, Boult offers width to Head as well, and that batsman clatters his cut shot to the fence at point. Better shot, same value. Classy 50 from Buttler. Plenty wouldn't have picked him because of his lack of red-ball cricket. Ball is batting like a classic late call up to his club 1st XI who has been dumped down at no.10 and knows he won't get much of a bowl. 5.32am GMT 31st over: Australia 129-4 (Warner 74, Head 18) Ah, that one bad ball can make such a difference. De Grandhomme could have bowled a good over for three singles, but he slips one down leg, and Warner flicks it fine for four. Tony Greig's legacy is every commentator saying, "You're dead right." #ausvnz 5.28am GMT 30th over: Australia 122-4 (Warner 68, Head 17) Boult is back, this is a big moment. The key Kiwi has bowled five overs of his ten to this point. Two or three here, a couple late in the innings? Warner calmly pushes the single first ball into the covers, then it’s back to Head’s struggle, missing the pull shot, bashing the cut to the field, half ducking and half pulling against a ball that skews away for a run to fine leg. Warner, cool as ever, waits back and taps a run to point from his first ball back on strike. 5.24am GMT 29th over: Australia 119-4 (Warner 66, Head 16) Head still isn’t screwed on right. Goes hard at a mistimed shot and can’t score, then darts a single next ball that would have had him run out had the throw hit. Warner gives him the strike back, and Head glides a couple to third man. Five in total from the de Grandhomme over. 5.20am GMT 28th over: Australia 114-4 (Warner 64, Head 13) Fast bowlers concede runs. It’s just kinda one of those things. Sometimes they get wickets as well, but they cost. Ferguson bowls yet another wide, then drops short and is pounded away by Head for four . Great timing. Takes the single, which gives Warner the chance to play his own pull shot, although this one is saved just inside the rope for three. Nine off the over. 5.17am GMT 27th over: Australia 105-4 (Warner 61, Head 8) Interesting field for Head. They’ve got two fairly short covers and a point, along with a deep cover and a mid-off. Presumably it’ll be a line outside off, encourage him to play uppishly. After receiving strike from Warner, Head’s cut shot is wonderfully cut off by Guptill at point, or it would have been four. The sweeper cuts off another, keeping him to a single, then Warner chips a ball just over the head of Nicholls at short cover and profits by two. 5.11am GMT 26th over: Australia 101-4 (Warner 58, Head 7) Ferguson is back. Warner makes use of his pace by running it to third man, Head tries to do the same with an uppercut but is nearly caught a third man. Warner gets a fuller one and pounds it through cover for four! That was a shot. Then the sensible, score-building single to follow, flicked square. If he could back up with another ton today... He’s raised the team hundred, too, by the way. 5.09am GMT 25th over: Australia 94-4 (Warner 52, Head 6) Better over from the Australians against de Grandhomme. Head finds a couple singles via the glide and the straight push, Warner sees a tasty one whose length he likes and flogs it over mid-on. It bounces wide of the fieldsman in the deep, then scoots under him to reach the rope. Warner follows up with another single, eight from the over. 5.05am GMT 24th over: Australia 86-4 (Warner 46, Head 4) Warner is still ticking over, a strike rate around 80, and keeping control of his part of the innings. Head glides a single to third man after receiving strike, which looks more composed than his previous efforts. Warner pulls a couple of runs from Southee’s short ball, four from the over. 5.03am GMT 23rd over: Australia 82-4 (Warner 43, Head 3) De Grandhomme continuing the restraining order: another wide, three singles. 4.58am GMT 22nd over: Australia 78-4 (Warner 41, Head 2) Southee back, and a cracker of an over. Some good ground fielding stops Head scoring early, then the batsman starts losing the body part that he’s named for, and swings away wildly for the last couple of balls. Makes no contact. Second maiden for Southee today, just 13 from his five overs. 4.56am GMT 21st over: Australia 78-4 (Warner 41, Head 2) Different batsmen, same result. Warner gets a single first ball against de Grandhomme, then watches Head face four dots before finally finding a run to keep the strike. De ja vu. One big swipe that missed was enough to make Head nervous, and he backed off. Two lefties at the crease now. I can certainly see why you'd never dream of changing this batting line-up under any circumstances for the reigning ODI player of the year. 4.51am GMT 20th over: Australia 76-4 (Warner 40, Head 1) Williamson takes advantage of a possible quiet period to sneak some overs from... Williamson? Yep, a bit of off-spin. The Aussies get three singles from it. 4.46am GMT 19th over: Australia 73-4 (Warner 38, Head 0) Three runs from the over, two wickets. You’ll take that. The young man Travis Head is at the crease, after an excellent 57 in Canberra, but he’ll need to do a much different job in this match, coming in before the 20th over and needing to bat through. Mitch Marsh has been dismissed for a duck in four of his last eight innings in all formats. #AusvNZ 4.44am GMT Two in three balls, as Marsh chops a ball down into the pitch, it bounces up behind him, and thunks into the top of middle stump. Watling leaps into the air after watching the ball on, and suddenly Australia are back in trouble. Oh man #AUSvNZ pic.twitter.com/EtnboWcxBV 4.42am GMT And the pressure tells! Bailey just never looked comfortable today, couldn’t find any timing, and it’s been a struggle of an innings. Not a huge problem with a low strike rate when you’re rebuilding, but when you get out without cashing in later it never looks good on the scorecard. A third catch in the ring on the on-side, as Bailey tried to work the medium-pacer across the line and chipped up the catch to midwicket. 4.40am GMT 18th over: Australia 70-2 (Warner 35, Bailey 23) Another tidy over from Santner, three runs from it. Pressure builds... 4.35am GMT 17th over: Australia 68-2 (Warner 33, Bailey 22) One of the many Colins, this one named de Grandhomme, comes on for his first over, and is milked like a Jersey cow. A brace and a single to Warner, a wide to Bailey, then Colin 1 keeps sliding leg-side-ish, bowling at the hip, and is worked away for three more singles. Seven from the over in total. 4.33am GMT 16th over: Australia 61-2 (Warner 29, Bailey 21) Bailey is struggling here, could have chipped a return catch had Santner been quicker off the mark. Warner gets a single to follow up that run, then Bailey faces four more dots, two of them inside edges. I say he’s struggling, but they’ve raised a 50 partnership from 58 balls, so the pair is at least doing the rebuilding that Australia needed. Sometimes all you can do is battle through the bad times, as Mitch Marsh did early in his innings in Canberra before destroying the bowling by the end. 4.28am GMT 15th over: Australia 59-2 (Warner 28, Bailey 20) Another over of heat. Warner gets away from Ferguson first ball with a single, but Bailey is pinned down until the last of the over. One ball especially is sliced away off the edge but lands safely. There’s also another high bouncer - they could be exerting even more pressure if they stopped conceding extras, the Australian bowlers. 4.25am GMT 14th over: Australia 56-2 (Warner 27, Bailey 19) Six! Warner celebrates his let-off immediately, first ball of Santner’s over lifted over long-off to drop just behind the boundary rope. Three singles follow from the rest of the over. I'd say about 10,000 here so far #AUSvNZ pic.twitter.com/zWPvEGz4wh 4.20am GMT 13th over: Australia 47-2 (Warner 19, Bailey 18) Everyone’s getting carried away with Ferguson’s pace. He can’t help bowling it, they can’t help trying to smash it. Bailey carves a square drive for a couple, then pulls a couple. He gets the single next ball, then Warner is dropped . Short ball, lots of pace, hooked at it, big top edge towards backward square. Nicholls could have been three catches from three, as he put in a fantastic sprint from deep midwicket as the ball hung in the air. But it just dripped a little too steeply on him, and I’m not sure if got fingertips to it on the dive or if it landed an inch in front. Either way, he can’t hold it, and a huge moment in the match tilts Australia’s way. Warner gets a run. 4.16am GMT 12th over: Australia 41-2 (Warner 18, Bailey 13) Mitchell Santner on now, left-arm spin. He’s been very tidy in some monster totals so far: 1-47 in Canberra, 0-40 in Sydney. Only three singles from his first over. Smith's ODI ducks now trending longer. His first 3 flatlined at 2 balls each, today's was 7 balls. Definitely showing more patience. #AusvNZ 4.12am GMT 11th over: Australia 38-2 (Warner 17, Bailey 11) Ferguson! He’s bowling absolute heat. Was that entire over delivered at more than 150 kmh? Most of it certainly was. An eventful over, too, with Warner very nearly chopping on again as he did in Sydney. Warner has to spin around and bat it away from his stumps after it banged hard into the ground. They fly past the batsman thereafter, including one wide bouncer called for the height. Then the last ball ruins the perfect pace, Ferguson dishing up a slower ball that Warner is wise to and belts dead stright past mid-off for four. 4.07am GMT 10th over: Australia 31-2 (Warner 12, Bailey 10) Thwock. Risk-reward from Warner lands on reward this time. He gets a decent ball from Boult, not a half-volley, on a good length, but Warner is able to lean back and lift it over wide mid-off, the ball taking off with a pogo spring towards the rope. Gets off strike with a single to leg, then Bailey gets a not-so-good shorter ball and cracks the pull shot for four. 4.02am GMT 9th over: Australia 22-2 (Warner 7, Bailey 6) Lachie Ferguson on for his first run - the Calder Cannons half-forward flanker, as he was described during Game 1. Bailey is getting frustrated: after an initial no-ball from Ferguson, Bailey slogs with all he’s got at the free hit, and just toes it to the fieldsman at midwicket. Then he cracks a pull shot straight to square leg, then he’s beaten through to Watling behind the stumps. No runs off the bat that over, and the score is a mini-Richie. George Bailey's new batting stance is not so much "out of the box", more "forgot my box". #ausvnz pic.twitter.com/DMaYeWe2f2 3.59am GMT 8th over: Australia 21-2 (Warner 7, Bailey 6) Boult being pretty tidy as well, although the line of his bouncers still needs some work. He kept bowling the slower ones down leg in Canberra, and today he’s going high and wide down leg with the quicker one. Two singles are teh other scores from the over, Bailey keeping strike from the last ball. 3.57am GMT 7th over: Australia 18-2 (Warner 6, Bailey 5) New Zealand bowling beautifully this morning. Southee just working away outside Bailey’s off stump, has him playing and missing, has him on the wander, but the need to balance caution wins out and Bailey sees out a maiden. 3.51am GMT 6th over: Australia 18-2 (Warner 6, Bailey 5) Bailey trying to get the measure of Boult after Warner gets off strike with a leg bye. George watches a few balls go by, blocks some towards cover. The last of the over is short enough to be cut for three. I will not be told what to eat by a pyramid 3.46am GMT 5th over: Australia 14-2 (Warner 6, Bailey 2) Some good ground fielding as well from the Kiwis, as Warner first pulls Southee behind square, then carves him on the cut shot toward point, but is foiled on both occasions. Warner finally gets a single from the fifth ball, and Butt-First Bailey shows him how easily it’s done by flicking his own first delivery through midwicket for two. 3.43am GMT 4th over: Australia 11-2 (Warner 5) No 55 average for Smith today! He’s only made one duck in that period since being recalled to the ODI team, but he adds another today. Boult does the business again, the off-side stacked with catchers, and the over bombing away at an off-stump line, but he jags the last ball in to target the body, and Smith shifts across the stumps to try to flick it away fine. He doesn’t get onto it properly, pops it away in the air, and Nicholls again is at square leg to intercept. 3.38am GMT 3rd over: Australia 10-1 (Warner 5, Smith 0) Southee follows up with another peach of an over. Rips the first ball past the outside edge as it jags, which unsettles Warner, then the batsman is flailing at the next two balls outside the off stump. Misses. Warner finally gets the last ball away with that slapping cover drive that he lays so well, but it wasn’t a bad ball, and could just as easily have got him out. 3.36am GMT 2nd over: Australia 6-1 (Warner 1, Smith 0) Wicket maiden for Boult with his first over. Some start. Smith in the middle early, but he averages 55.88 since being recalled to the team in October 2014. 3.32am GMT Great bowling - Trent Boult comes left-arm over, sits one just outside Finch’s off stump, then swings it in. Kane Williamson has left cover open for Finch, so the batsman aims a booming drive in that direction. The tailing ball takes the inside half of the bat and squirts to square leg, where Nicholls holds the simple catch. “Finch’s place in this team further in peril,” says Gerard Whateley on ABC radio, but I’m not too sure that’s fair. He’s one of those players who becomes unfashionable about one innings after he’s dominated a game. Was fantastic in Sri Lanka mid-year. 3.28am GMT 1st over: Australia 6-0 (Warner 1, Finch 3) Not a great start from Southee, sends down a couple of wides as he tries to find his range. Warner bunts a sprint-single into the leg-side, then Finch flicks three through square leg. Lots of space out there, #MCGsobig, and there’ll be runs aplenty if the batsmen use their placement. Great to see @theagesport journo @Jesse_Hogan back at the MCG ahead of today's third ODI! #AUSvNZ pic.twitter.com/s8rXrBApRC 3.19am GMT Normally I would put a tweet at the end of a post, but this deserves a post of one’s own. 18% of New Zealand’s team are called Colin. #AUSvNZ 3.17am GMT Bad news for New Zealand again - another run chase, another requirement to constrain this in-form batting line-up. Bad news for Glenn Maxwell, who has been left out again, meaning he’s missed Victoria’s Shield game for the privilege of carrying drinks and sub-fielding for a week. Bad news for Jimmy Neesham, who is out with the arm he injured in the Canberra game. Henry Nicholls replaces him in the top order. Lachie Ferguson replaces Matt Henry in a seam-bowling swap. Australia is unchanged. These are the news. Australia Warner Finch Smith* Bailey Marsh Head Wade† Faulkner Starc Cummins Hazlewood 3.09am GMT Cry me a river. Find me a rainbow. Send me an email. That number again is geoff.lemon@theguardian.com, or the tweetbox is @GeoffLemonSport. 3.04am GMT Hello fronds! Fern you for joining me, plant yourselves in a chair. No, please don’t leave, let stalk about it. I may have soiled my reputation, but your absence will be a gap that I can’t chlorophyll. The sun is out in Melbourne, incidentally, after a very glum and cold grey morning that resembled a slab of wet slate. Not promising, and I’m not going to lie, Yarra Park was not exactly packed with eager punters flocking to catch the third game of this wildly popular Chappell-Hadlee series. But a few are making their way into the ground now, and the day looks more promising. 1.50am GMT Geoff will be here shortly. In the meantime, here’s an interesting take on the whole Glenn Maxwell saga from Sam Perry: Related: Glenn Maxwell public criticism: disproportionate or good leadership? | Sam Perry Continue reading...

Australia 264- 8; New Zealand 147 (36.1 overs) | Australia win by 117 runs Warner’s 156 from 128 balls helps Australia seal series whitewash David Warner destroyed New Zealand and led Australia to a morale-boosting series sweep of their one-day cricket series. After rescuing the Australian innings in Friday’s dead rubber at the MCG, Warner came within one ball of becoming only the 11th batsman to carry his bat through a one-day international. Related: Australia beat New Zealand to complete ODI series whitewash – as it happened Continue reading...

Meg Lanning’s Melbourne Stars take on Sydney Thunder this Saturday ‘She’s got a massive future ahead of her and she’s only so young as well.’ She’s being hailed as the Bradman of women’s cricket and now Meg Lanning is promising yet more runs in what promises to be an explosive start to the WBBL on Saturday. Lanning’s Melbourne Stars will take on defending champions Sydney Thunder in a day-nighter to complete an opening round treble of matches at North Sydney Oval to launch the second Women’s Big League Bash. Related: Meg Lanning: 'I don't see myself as the best player in the world' Continue reading...

Cricket Australia XI 4-3 after Pakistan were 208 all-out Amir takes two wickets with opening two balls on the CA XI innings Pakistan tearaway Mohammad Amir has delivered a 12-ball spell that will send shivers down the spines of Australian batsman. The 24-year-old quick ripped through the inexperienced Cricket Australia XI on Thursday night to leave them for 4-3 at stumps on day one, but his deliveries would have knocked over any world-class batsman. Related: Australia name unchanged squad for first Test against Pakistan Continue reading...

With a culture of solving problems behind closed doors the Australian coach and captain’s public criticism of Glenn Maxwell smacks of cricket politics Depending on how you like your sport served, cricket either suffers or enjoys a reputation for being political. But while politics is probably no more or less part of the game than most other professional sports, cricket’s nature gives rise to pondering in a way many others cannot. Related: Australia name unchanged squad for first Test against Pakistan Related: MCC accuses Faf du Plessis of ‘flagrantly’ cheating in ball-tampering row Continue reading...

• Hameed: ‘It’s great to see the way Keaton has gone about his business’ • Injured opener has mixed emotions: ‘You want to be the one performing’ The opening day of the fourth Test at the Wankhede Stadium was one of mixed emotions for Haseeb Hameed, with the 19-year-old England opener, whose tour of India was cut short by a broken finger, looking on from the stands while his replacement chalked up a century on debut . Hameed’s delight for Keaton Jennings was evident – he described the Durham left-hander’s emergence as “great for English cricket” – but it was also tinged with disappointment given the fourth Test was the match he had been looking forward to the most. Related: England’s Keaton Jennings stuns India with century on his Test debut Related: Keaton Jennings ‘bit the bullet and went for it’ to claim century on England debut | Ali Martin Continue reading...

The 19th England batsman to score a Test century on debut brought up the milestone with an audacious reverse-swept four off an India spinner At 5am on Thursday Keaton Jennings jumped out of bed in a state of blind panic, convinced he had slept through his alarm and missed the team bus. Nine hours later, with a couple more heart-in-mouth moments along the way, the 24-year-old was raising his bat at the Wankhede Stadium in celebration after becoming the 19th England batsman to taste the sweet success of scoring a Test century on debut. Related: Haseeb Hameed says Keaton Jennings’ dazzling debut great for English cricket Related: England’s Keaton Jennings stuns India with century on his Test debut Related: England’s Keaton Jennings stuns India with century on his Test debut Continue reading...

• Fourth Test, day one: England 288-5 • Check out the full scorecard from Mumbai Alastair Cook has spent four years waiting for a decent opening partner and then all of a sudden two of them come along in the space of three weeks. Keaton Jennings is the latest welcome arrival. Under a cloudless sky he became the first England player since Billy Griffith in 1948 in Trinidad to score a century on his first day as a Test cricketer – and we can be fairly confident Griffith did not reach those coveted three figures with a reverse sweep. Related: Who is Keaton Jennings? England’s latest batsman to score a century on debut Related: Keaton Jennings ‘bit the bullet and went for it’ to claim century on England debut | Ali Martin Related: Haseeb Hameed says Keaton Jennings’ dazzling debut great for English cricket Related: India v England: fourth Test, day one - as it happened Continue reading...

Keaton Jennings crafted a beautiful century on debut, guiding England to a strong but far from dominant position on a track behaving increasingly erratically 11.06am GMT Anyhow, thanks all for your company and comments - sorry I couldn’t use them all - and we’ll be back tomorrow. Good-day. Related: England’s Keaton Jennings stuns India with century on his Test debut Related: Haseeb Hameed says Keaton Jennings’ dazzling debut great for English cricket Related: Keaton Jennings ‘bit the bullet and went for it’ to claim century on England debut | Ali Martin 11.05am GMT So, England are in the ascendancy. Runs on the board, plenty of batting in the middle and to come, and a pitch that is going to become increasingly vicious. Of course, they might still get rolled in the morning and then be flayed by Kohli, but in the meantime, they’re looking good. Oh, and the boy Keaton Jennings, scored a century on debut. But how many Nice and Spicy Nik Naks can he eat in one sitting? 11.03am GMT 94th over: England 288-5 (Stokes 25, Buttler 18) Jadeja will bowl the last over the day, and some kicking turn fires the ball at Stokes, but he’s well outside off stump and takes it on the body. He’s defended really well since his earlier roasting, and Kohli sends a man back for the final delivery, then Jadeja aborts his run-up, but Stokes is equanimous in defence and that’s the end of a fantastic day. 10.59am GMT 93rd over: England 288-5 (Stokes 25, Buttler 18) Ashwin returns, but with a tired loosener, and Buttler, for all his earlier confusion, does not miss out, slamming four through the covers. Two singles follow, and England are nearly there. “These people mentioning the Jennings books need to think High Art rather than children’s literature,” says Fran Mason. “Alastair Cook in his interviews has himself revealed that Jennings is ‘Keats’. Yes, it’s just a shortened form of Keaton, but a century on debut is both a thing of truth and a thing of beauty (even if it’s scratched together) because as the lad himself said ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty – that is all /Ye know on earth and all ye need to know’. As an aside, he was also clearly talking about cricket in the last part.” 10.56am GMT 92nd over: England 282-5 (Stokes 24, Buttler 13) Ashwin is warming up as Jayant sees Buttler coming down, dropping short - Buttler bumps to leg and they run one. Stokes then cuts a further single, and Buttler does the same, using his feet again to take the ball on the full and prevent it spinning. 10.52am GMT 91st over: England 279-5 (Stokes 23, Buttler 11) And to rub it in, Stokes flicks four to fine leg when Jadeja strays; Kohli looks to still be considering the wasted review. this has been a good 20 minutes for England. 10.50am GMT Impact was umpire’s call, just on the edge of the line. It was hitting the stumps, but that wasn’t enough - Stokes was saved by his stride. 10.49am GMT 91st over: England 274-5 (Stokes 19, Buttler 10) The third umpire fingers the new ball as Jadeja hurries in again, and after Buttler hustles one to midwicket, there’s an appeal when Stokes takes one on the pad. Then again next ball, and this time Jadeja is convinced. No one else is, but so beseeching is he that Kohli goes upstairs. 10.47am GMT 90th over: England 274-5 (Stokes 19, Buttler 10) A quiet over, which will please England greatly. It’s not long till we see Ashwin back, I shouldn’t wonder, perhaps with the new ball. 15 or so minutes left in the day. 10.43am GMT 89th over: England 272-5 (Stokes 18, Buttler 9) I wonder if England are still happy with their four seamers. My guess is they are - they’ll bowl dry, rotated from one end, with whichever of spinners is bowling well looking to take wickets at the other. Buttler is on strike to Jadeja, not something he’ll want to continue - he’s looked much more in tune with himself against Jayant. And there’s another edge, earning two to fine leg, and slowly, England are reaching the point at which a defendable total is almost unavoidable. 10.40am GMT 88th over: England 270-5 (Stokes 18, Buttler 7) Stokes takes a single, then Buttler does the same - his feet are starting to move. @DanielHarris Surely no flurry of England wickets is complete without 386DX's cover of "Smells Like Teen Spirit": https://t.co/ZvuizsqTls 10.38am GMT 87th over: England 268-5 (Stokes 17, Buttler 6) Jadeja comes on for Ashwin, presumably with that new ball in mind, and after Stokes nabs a single through mid on, Buttler edges four. Then Jadeja, bowling around, sends down a fuller one and Buttler goes back then leaves - a phenomenal amount of misjudgment packed into about a third of a second. He gets away with it. 10.34am GMT 86th over: England 263-5 (Stokes 16, Buttler 2) Jayant draws Stokes forward and he edges to gully - again, the ball drops agonisingly, triumphantly short; Kohli gets Pandey a helmet and brings him even further forward. Stokes then cuts for one, and two more singles follow; perhaps England are through the worst of it. 10.30am GMT 85th over: England 260-5 (Stokes 14, Buttler 1) Stokes picks Ashwin’s length and checks his pull, edging into his midriff and sending Patel scurrying forwards seeking a catch. He chides himself for not seeing the shot through, because he was there early enough to deliver it. All set for him to get himself out playing it at the wrong time. 10.27am GMT 84th over: England 259-5 (Stokes 13, Buttler 1) Buttler edges one that drops just short of leg slip so tries coming down the track - Jayant is wise to it, dropping shorter. But there’s a sign, with the penultimate ball of the over, that he’s starting to feel comfortable - he brings his bat inside the line and allows the spin to do its thing in the meantime. Maiden. 10.24am GMT 83rd over: England 259-5 (Stokes 13, Buttler 1) “He’s a good team man,” says Botham of Stokes. “Always there if they’re playing golf.” Case closed, m’lud. There is nothing better than tales of sportsmen playing golf, but back out in the middle, Stokes miscues four and is then completely done when Ashwin javelins one in flat that grips and phlegms to slip. 10.22am GMT 82nd over: England 255-5 (Stokes 9, Buttler 1) Paul Reiffel is fine, say Cricinfo - CT scan clear, precautionary rest advised. Stokes gets two with an edge, then a single, and Jayant looks like he’s bowling with Oddball of Whizzer and Chips fame - Buttler currently looks like Butthead, without the laughs. He’s almost done by the final delivery, inside edging into his pad. “I wonder if Boycs will have as much of a go at YJB as he did at Moeen?” tweets Guy Hornsby. “Both risky shots on this wicket @ DanielHarris Oh, ENGLAND. # rhubarb ”. 10.16am GMT 81st over: England 249-5 (Stokes 5, Buttler 0) I’d like to know what Ashwin has for this spell - I think it’s, er, 3-9. Yes, really. And nearly another, when one rips past Buttler’s bat. England need another 100, reckons Beefy. Er, ok then. 10.13am GMT What a half-hour this has been for India! Bairstow premeditates a sweep, the ball is too full, and he top-edges to deep backward square. He looks somewhat disappointed with his behaviours. 10.11am GMT 80th over: England 249-4 (Bairstow 14, Stokes 5) Three singles off the over, but the last ball turns and bounces past Stokes’ outside-edge - again. India review, but only because their larder is replenished next over. Not sure “tactical review” is the right term for it, though. Bob O’Hara emails in with bad news for Kim Thonger and civilisation at large. 10.04am GMT 112 - @JetJennings is the 1st player to score a 100 on Test debut for @englandcricket since Trott in 2009 & the 3rd since Cook in 2006. Ton. pic.twitter.com/dKGkdpbw3x 10.03am GMT 79th over: England 246-4 (Bairstow 12, Stokes 4) So, should Bairstow try and face Ashwin as much as possible, or should he protect his wicket as the man in form? Stokes gets himself off strike, second ball of the over, and then Bairstow adds a single of his own. Drinks. 10.01am GMT 78th over: England 244-4 (Bairstow 11, Stokes 3) Jayant returns, and things don’t get easier for Stokes, who plays more deliberately at one that turns away from him nonetheless. At the moment, he looks like a hippo trying to thread a needle. But he gets down the other end via cut, and then Bairstow, who still looks in nick, comes down the track and finds himself short, so closes the face with serious expertise, earning the first boundary in a while. 9.56am GMT 77th over: England 239-4 (Bairstow 7, Stokes 2) A single to Bairstow from the first ball of the over gives Ashwin five at Stokes, and he completely befuddles him with an arm ball, flicked with the forefinger, that’s quicker and flatter. Stokes plays for the spin and it scoots just past off stump, as Kohli and Patel, who did read it, giggle with mirth and frustration. 9.54am GMT 76th over: England 237-4 (Bairstow 6, Stokes 1) Bairstow’s beard looks especially peculiar in combination with the strap on his helmet; he’d be a good Guess Who character. And his fellow ginger ninja would too - MB Games failed to anticipate the growing prevalence of body art. 9.50am GMT 75th over: England 236-4 (Bairstow 5, Stokes 1) Bairstow is allowing himself as much time as possible to see what’s going on, looking to play back whenever he can. He takes two through midwicket, then a single to square leg, but all that does is give Ashwin a go at his buddy and again, he goes from wide of the crease and conjures one past the outside edge. Stokes is getting an absolute shoeing here, but is still here. Magical Becomes Real,where art converts a day to day act into a poetry, @DalrympleWill @dpanikkar @farida_art @PunjabiRooh @zpr27 @nistula pic.twitter.com/qAwyMgXILJ 9.46am GMT 74th over: England 233-4 (Bairstow 2, Stokes 1) India have put the thumbscrews on England here, and given two attacking batsmen, something is going to give; probably the aforementioned thumbs. One off the over, to Bairstow, who goes back and shoves into the leg side. 9.44am GMT 73rd over: England 232-4 (Bairstow 1, Stokes 1) Bairstow sweeps nicely to open his account, but then Stokes is diddled by an absolute beauty that Ashwin brings in from wide of the crease that turns away across the face of the bat. Far, far too good. And then another, on leg and turning square; Stokes can only laugh as Ashwin is forced to curtail his celebration on account of being too good once again. 9.41am GMT 72nd over: England 231-4 (Bairstow 0, Stokes 1) England cannot afford to lose too many more tonight. If they get rustled f0r anything below 350, they’re in big trouble. “ Now I am safely at work I thought you might be interested in this as it is an eye watering version of Smells like Teen Spirit, but you can hear the words,” emails John Tumbridge. 9.38am GMT 71st over: England 231-4 (Bairstow 0, Stokes 1) Suddenly, 400 looks a nice total again, with both set batsmen gone. Stokes turns to midwicket to get off the mark first ball, and the crowd are up, the Indians are up, and what a session of cricket we have to elevate our otherwise tedious existences. What an over that was; what an over . 9.36am GMT The height of subcontinental cricket, the height of England, the height of Ravi Ashwin! This is a lovely ball, fired at off stump, bringing Jennings forward, and drawing the edge that flew to the gully that had only just been sent in. 9.34am GMT 71st over: England 230-3 (Jennings 112, Bairstow 0) On the one hand, Moeen was taking the attack to India with England in a good position; on the other, might he have had a look at Ashwin, or treated him differently from Jadeja and Jayant? 9.33am GMT I doubt anyone even needs to be furnished with detail here, but for the sake of process, here is it. Ashwin returns to the attack because he has to, Moeen tries another slog-sweep, imparts every millimetre of his top edge, and Nair holds a dolly at midwicket. Moeen, Moeen, Moeen, Moeeeeeheeeeheeen.... 9.29am GMT 70th over: England 230-2 (Jennings 112, Moeen 50) Jennings swishes at a wide one, it takes some rough and ends up at slip, and then Moeen, who took a single from the first ball of the over, glides another into the covers and celebrates another fifty. He is always a pleasure to watch, whether performing cricket or comedy. 9.26am GMT 69th over: England 227-2 (Jennings 111, Moeen 48) Or should it be Sangawardene-style? Anyway. Kohli and Jadeja have a meeting, forced to rethink things for the first time in a fair few days’ play. 9.24am GMT 68th over: England 225-2 (Jennings 110, Moeen 47) Jennings takes a single could be the title of a book but is in fact what just happened, so Jayant goes around the wicket and Moeen gathers him from outside off to hump a slog-sweep to the midwicket fence. And there’s another! In the air this time, one bounce and over the fence. England are batting like a sub-continental team here: work hard through the day, cash-in in the final session, Kumhela-style. A correction from David Green: “Unless the sentence were ‘Nasser, a dab hand at running his partner out in his time....’”. 9.20am GMT 67th over: England 216-2 (Jennings 109, Moeen 39) Single to Moeen, behind square on the off side, then one to Jennings, miscuing a drive that was meant to go over mid-on and ends up at deep square. “Wikipedia appears to have been ‘moderated’,” emails Nick in Cambodia. “Jennings’ height varied from ‘6ft - 1in’ to ‘As tall as the Burj Khalifa’ ... and now the height category has gone. Was fun while it lasted.” 9.17am GMT 66th over: England 214-2 (Jennings 108, Moeen 38) Jennings has such an array of shots; Jayant’s first ball is greeted with another sweep, but this one is struck powerfully and in front of square - “it can leave you thinking you’re a fielder short,” says Nasser, referencing the dab and reverses that we’ve already seen. “Dab”, not a word anyone ever expected to see in the same sentence as “Nasser”. 9.14am GMT 65th over: England 210-2 (Jennings 104, Moeen 38) Jadeja rushes in, and there’s a shout of “catch it!” as Moeen twinkles down the track and snaps what looks like four but is in fact six, just over the rope. What a valuable innings this is. But, is he going to be a regular in the summer, now that he’s been overtaken as number 1 spinner by Deirdre? 9.10am GMT 64th over: England 202-2 (Jennings 103, Moeen 31) Jayant is in, and the ball’s turning for him as you’d expect. I wonder whether it’s easier on a track that spins as a matter of course, rather than one where some do and some don’t. And just as Nasser says that when Moeen bats at 7 you think he should be batting at 4, and when he bats at 4 you think he should be batting at 7, he’s drawn forward with a slow, flighted delivery, opens the face and edges just shy of Kohli in the slips. A hazard of a bowler who varies his pace to such extent, I’m afraid. 9.07am GMT 63rd over: England 201-2 (Jennings 103, Moeen 30) Unusually, a loosener from Jadeja, who drags one down, and Moeen isn’t having that, pulling to the midwicket fence. Then, three balls later, a lofted front-foot sweep has the fielders hollering, taking the top edge, but it drops safe. “Just thought I’d smugly point out that of the 5 batsmen who’ve made tons for England on debut this millennium, 4 were born in South Africa – Jennings, Trott, Prior and Strauss. Cook is your only home-grown debutante centurion since Graham Thorpe back in 1993. 9.04am GMT Jadeja has the ball. 9.03am GMT Right then, yalla - here we go again. 9.01am GMT “Easy to go overboard after Jennings’ hundred and Hameed looking the part before his unfortunate injury,” emails Kevin Wilson who is definitely not going overboard, “but England might have unwittingly solved their number three position. But who drops down? Maybe lighten Cook’s load a little, or would that put too much pressure on two new kids?” I’m sure it’ll be Jennings who drops down. Cook certainly isn’t, and he’s a lefty, so it makes sense. I know it’s overbored, not overboard, but ears can’t detect homonyms. 8.54am GMT Teatime email: “My dear chap,” misdirects Kim Thonger, “I need five signatures to make this happen, can you help? My petition: Require Keaton Jennings’ opening partners to change their surname to Darbishire 8.47am GMT And here’s one from the same book by your Rob Smyths, on Curtly Ambrose. The book, Supreme Bowling, investigates the finest performances of all-time; buy many copies, here . Related: The day Curtly Ambrose ripped England to pieces in the West Indies 8.45am GMT Tea-time reading: here’s an essay on Indian cricket, Kapil Dev, and his 7-56 against Pakistan in 1980 , by, er me. 8.43am GMT 62nd over: England 196-2 (Jennings 103, Moeen 25) If Keaton Jennings’ nickname isn’t JCT, then it really needs to be Diane. One off the over, and that’s the end of a frankly superb session for England. “Surely, as any fule no,” emails Molesworth Tumbridge, “Darbishire was the scorer or at least meant to have been when Jennings scored a first ever half century for Linden Court.He failed in his duties being absent elsewhere so the feat was not recorded Jennings was then asked to bat again and was out first ball. Darbishire was never deemed good enough to bat.” 8.37am GMT 61st over: England 195-2 (Jennings 103, Moeen 24) So then, what have you accomplished today? Feel free to send in your triumphs; I semi-successfully plaited my daughter’s hair, which I doubt Keaton Jennings could do as uselessly. Exactly. “Morning Daniel, morning everybody,” chirps Guy Hornsby. “For once, checking my phone during a Test match at 6am this winter in India hasn’t induced an existentialist crisis. This lad Jennings looks handy, but not handy enough to get a ton on debut, obviously*. You do worry if these two will get bogged down before tea, but I’d settle for slow accumulation with no flurry of wickets. Moeen’s surely due a score here, after his brain farts in Mohali. He’s such a gent, isn’t he ? (*contractually obliged to reverse jinx here).” Churning the Ocean. Bhagavata Purana Folio. N. India, 19th Century. Bonham's. @Chemburstudio @DalrympleWill @ambrin_hayat pic.twitter.com/uMg6AJy3wf 8.33am GMT 60th over: England 193-2 (Jennings 102, Moeen 23) The England balcony are giggling away, Jennings too, his initial reaction is of someone who always expected this to happen. In the crowd, Hasseb Hameed is clapping - suddenly, England have a top order. Anyway, enough of the frivolity; its Daddy time. So, a single is eased to third man, the only run from the over. 8.29am GMT 59th over: England 192-2 (Jennings 101, Moeen 23) 8.26am GMT 58th over: England 186-2 (Jennings 96, Moeen 22) Bhuvi returns, and Jennings, who is 24, swings everything at it on account of being 24, and makes a complete moron of himself on account of being 24, and we all feel better on account of not being 24 but once being 24. Not really, he flicks to square leg and adds another single, achieving our dreams while politely reminding us that we’re useless. On the wireless last night, Steve Harmison described him as “obsessed with cricket” and as having a “perfect mentality”. So, when Moeen takes another single to leg, er, “Jet” - come on, nobody’s perfect (apart from John Eales) - edges one of is own, Moeen replies, and England are cruising . 8.20am GMT 57th over: England 182-2 (Jennings 94, Moeen 20) Moeen negotiates a quiet one from Jayant, and looks slightly less frenetic than against Umesh. Maiden. “I’m thinking of starting a petition,” begins Kim Thonger, but please keep reading nonetheless - it gets better - “asking Alastair Cook to change his surname by Deed Poll to Darbishire, purely because the opportunity of Jennings and Darbishire opening for England is just too good to miss. Are you on board?” 8.17am GMT 56th over: England 182-2 (Jennings 94, Moeen 20) You’re not going to believe this, but Moeen has just been deceived but what he thought was a bouncer, rocking all his weight back onto his back foot, then waving the bat at a fuller one and guiding a precision edge against the fingertips of the diving Kohli at two, earning four. Don’t laugh. He then adds two more with an awkward looking frask , wangles a further single, and England are sitting pretty for a collapse. 8.13am GMT 55th over: England 175-2 (Jennings 94, Moeen 13) Jennings is one swipe away, turning to long on for one; he’s making these look like the nonsense nineties. Moeen takes a single of his own from the final delivery, and India could really use some Shami. 8.10am GMT 54th over: England 173-2 (Jennings 93, Moeen 12) Paul Reiffel is going to hospital for scan; godspeed, sir. In the meantime, Moeen nurdles a single towards the point fence, and Jennings is calmly calm while the rest of us are clammily clammy. He takes a single off the last delivery to retain the strike, and it seven away. 8.05am GMT 53rd over: England 171-2 (Jennings 92, Moeen 11) Morning all. Kohli brings men and Ashwin tosses them up, trying to persuade his royal Jetness to try and get there with two hits. The fourth ball of the over brings a big appeal, caught at silly point, but it was all pad. Maiden. 8.03am GMT 52nd over: England 171-2 (Jennings 92, Moeen 11) There have only been five Englishmen since 1950 who have scored centuries in their first ever Test innings, most recently Andrew Strauss and Matt Prior, both at Lord’s, in 2004 and 2007 respectively. Could Jennings be No6, or have I just jinxed him? Time will tell, I guess. I, however, won’t: I’m handing over to Daniel Harris. You can email him here or tweet him here . Thanks and stuff. Bye! 7.58am GMT 51st over: England 168-2 (Jennings 90, Moeen 10) A single off Ashwin takes Jennings into the nervous 90s. “The Wikipedia thing is clearly an attempt to confuse the enemy,” writes Felix Wood. “Can you imagine running in to bowl to him and not knowing how high you need to get the ball to deliver an effective bouncer? Your captain is desperately tweeting updates at you from the Wikipedia page, you’re trying to hide the shiny side of the ball, and you’ve got On a Ragga Tip going round and round your head for no reason. It’s a surefire disaster. If England had thought of this earlier then we wouldn’t be 2-0 down. Also, if we just changed the wikipedia entry for this series we wouldn’t be 2-0 down either.” 7.55am GMT 50th over: England 167-2 (Jennings 89, Moeen 10) A bit of pace, Umesh coming back presumably to test Moeen against the short ball. When he does bang one in, Moeen ducks under it. A maiden. Maybe Umpire Erasmus was delayed as he was frantically closing pop-up windows and deleting the browsing history on the 3rd umpire's laptop. 7.51am GMT 49th over: England 167-2 (Jennings 89, Moeen 10) No immediate post-unexpected-break concentration-losses. Nitin Menon will apparently be stand-in TV umpire while Reiffel gets himself sorted. 7.49am GMT Eventually, after a considerable delay presumably caused by the fact that as fourth umpire he had been watching proceedings in his underpants and then couldn’t find his trousers, Erasmus has er-ived. 7.44am GMT Why? @Simon_Burnton pic.twitter.com/Vc7ppITUNW 7.44am GMT Substitution: Reiffel is going off to recover from the blow and the shock. Marais Erasmus will replace him. That was shockingly poor fielding from Kumar, tossing the ball limply straight at Reiffel’s head for no obvious reason. 7.41am GMT 48.2 overs: England 165-2 (Jennings 88, Moeen 9) There’s an umpire un the turf! And he’s holding his head! It’s Paul Reiffel, who’s hit on the back of the bonce as the ball is gently - much too gently, really - returned towards the middle by Buvi from the outfield. The other umpire, Bruce Oxenford, runs over to assist, and when he gets there he - and this is thinking outside the box, you won’t find this in the first aid manuals - stands next to his stricken colleague, holding his hat in the air so that Reiffel’s head, while throbbing and aching, is at least pleasantly shaded. The players take early drinks while Reiffel is treated. 7.36am GMT 48th over: England 165-2 (Jennings 88, Moeen 9) “Keaton Jennings’ height was 11ft 8 two minutes ago on Wikipedia, then 2.35m, now he’s listed as ‘really bloody tall’, although I guess that too will have changed by the time you receive this,” writes Nick in Cambodia. It has: Wikipedia currently lists his height as “immeasurable”. Why is this happening? Why? 7.34am GMT 47th over: England 163-2 (Jennings 88, Moeen 7) All the action comes in the last couple of Ashwin deliveries, Moeen getting a single off the fifth and Jennings getting a thick outside edge to the last, the ball going wide of slip and being chased down before it reaches the rope. 7.31am GMT 46th over: England 160-2 (Jennings 86, Moeen 6) Jennings’ second attempt at a reverse sweep is much less impressive than the first but has identical effect, the ball just kissing the face of the bat and going almost straight past Patel and away for four. 7.25am GMT 44th over: England 150-2 (Jennings 78, Moeen 4) Jennings since the start of over No31: 1...1......1......1........1...1 - and then, from nowhere, back-to-back boundaries. Jayant’s first ball is dismissed with an excellent reverse sweep, and his second is driven through the covers. And then four dots, but still. 7.22am GMT 43r d over: England 142-2 (Jennings 70, Moeen 4) Moeen plays at a ball that turned plenty but passed well wide of his bat and the stumps and could very easily have been left. Jennings and Kohli exchange interested looks, as if they were tempted to review, but they were eventually put off by the fact the ball didn’t go anywhere near bat, pad, any other part of the batsman or the stumps. 7.18am GMT 42 nd over: England 141-2 (Jennings 69, Moeen 4) Jayant replaces Jadeja, and Jennings’ recent slow scoring continues with a single. 7.16am GMT 41st over: England 140-2 (Jennings 68, Moeen 4) “We are due an orgasmic innings from Moeen,” writes Ian Copestake a little optimistically of a batsman whose last five innings were 1, 2, 16, 5 and now 4* and who isn’t looking very comfortably currently. 7.12am GMT 40th over: England 138-2 (Jennings 68, Moeen 2) Moeen diverts Jadeja’s first delivery towards short midwicket, where it lands a couple of feet short of the diving fielder. In the last 10 overs Jennings has scored four runs, all singles, from 24 deliveries. 7.09am GMT 39th over: England 137-2 (Jennings 68, Moeen 1) Looking at the replays, Kohli trapped the ball between his wrists rather than in his hands. But hey, they all count. 7.06am GMT Root doesn’t capitalise on his let-off. Moments later, he edges straight to where the single slip was standing. Kohli was no longer standing there, though, having taken a few shuffles to his right before ball struck bat, but he flung out a left hand and caught it anyway! 7.04am GMT 38th over: England 136-1 (Jennings 68, Root 21) Root flicks the ball through midwicket and sets off down the pitch, before realising he actually didn’t touch the ball at all. Behind him, though, the ball hit Patel in the arm and bounced towards slip. 7.02am GMT 37th over: England 135-1 (Jennings 68, Root 20) A few more singles for England, ticking along. 6.58am GMT 36th over: England 132-1 (Jennings 67, Root 18) Just four maidens so far today, one for each bowler except Bhuvi. Root gets a single here to stop Jadeja getting his second. 6.56am GMT 35th over: England 131-1 (Jennings 67, Root 17) “I’d forgotten how handy Gough was with a bat,” writes Phil Withall. “In my slowly failing memory the things I most remember are that hat-trick, his Yorkshire endeavours and having an arse like Fred Trueman. Possibly not they way he should be remembered but all points worth saluting.” 6.53am GMT 34th over: England 128-1 (Jennings 67, Root 14) Another Jadeja over, the highlight of this one being Root’s delightful cover drive for four. 6.51am GMT 33rd over: England 121-1 (Jennings 66, Root 8) Phwoar! There’s a lovely ball here from Ashwin that spins and rises and nips just past the edge of Jennings’ bat. The batsman leaves the next one, which only just misses the stumps. 6.48am GMT 32nd over: England 120-1 (Jennings 66, Root 7) A curious pair of emails this morning/evening/whatever: “Greetings from Beijing Simon, where I am doing absolutely nothing useful while reading the OBO working my socks off to earn an honest crust,” writes Richard Woods. “I’ve just read Keaton Jennings’ Wikipedia entry. He seems to be a very small person.” I’m not sure how tall Wikipedia said he was as Richard penned his missive but then, a matter of minutes later, an email from Denis Smith: “Just had a snifter through Jennings’ Wikipedia page – stunned to learn he is 11ft 8 inches tall.” What japes, eh, people making stuff up on the internet and then publishing it as if it were true. What harm could possibly come of it? 6.43am GMT The players are back out. Jadeja holds the ball. 6.34am GMT All three of the England batsmen who batted this morning made their Test debuts in India and scored a half-century in their first innings. Cook got 60 in Nagpur in 2006, Root 73 also in Nagpur in 2012, and now Jennings has 65 so far today. The only other batsman to do so in the last 30 years is Owais Shah, who hit 88 also in 2006, a couple of weeks after Cook’s first match. 6.23am GMT The last Englishman to score (precisely) 65 runs in his first ever Test innings? A certain Darren Gough, whose first 10 Test knocks included, as well as that 65, a 42no and a 51. Those remained his three highest scores when he retired 76 innings later. 6.10am GMT A fine morning for England, and for Keaton Jennings, who was very nearly out twice in the first half-hour but settled impressively. “I was just about to compliment England on the fine start and wonder what could possibly go wrong, and the skipper goes charging down the wicket trying to smash his way to his 50.” writes Brian Withington. “Quite bizarre but a fine knock nevertheless.” Cook’s innings was decent enough, but I expect he’ll be very disappointed about the way it ended. 6.05am GMT 31st over: England 117-1 (Jennings 65, Root 5) Umesh bowls the last over before lunch, but the brief burst of pace brings India no chances and England three singles. 6.00am GMT 30th over: England 114-1 (Jennings 64, Root 3) There’s a loud lbw appeal here as the ball hits Root at the top of his pad, just above the knee. India debate the review, but having already lost one they decide not to risk it. Quite right too, the ball striking the pad well wide of off stump. England take a single, and then Jennings sweeps very fine for four. 5.57am GMT 29th over: England 109-1 (Jennings 60, Root 2) Blammo! Jennings reads the flight of the ball, advances and boshes it to the long on boundary, where it flies over the rope on its first bounce. Pretty much risk-free given the lack of fielders in the vicinity, but good stuff all the same. 5.54am GMT 28th over: England 103-1 (Jennings 55, Root 1) Jadeja gets one to straighten significantly, and Root gets nowhere near it. Patel whips the bails off again, but the batsman’s foot never left the ground. Still, fine bowling. 5.51am GMT 27th over: England 102-1 (Jennings 54, Root 1) In 250 Test Innings, Cook has only been stumped three times before. 5.48am GMT 26th over: England 99-1 (Jennings 52, Root 0) Jadeja takes out Cook for the third time this series. Lunch is in sight now. If England can make it with one wicket down, they’ll be happy enough with their morning’s work. 5.45am GMT Jadeja makes the breakthrough in his first over! Cook attacks, misses and is in no-man’s land when Patel takes off the bails. 5.42am GMT 25th over: England 98-0 (Cook 46, Jennings 52) Cook’s suddenly going big on boundaries, as if he’s determined not to be being outscored at lunch. He drives Jayant’s first ball to long on for four. 5.39am GMT 24th over: England 92-0 (Cook 40, Jennings 51) Cook flicks the ball away through midwicket for four, a really classy shot, and then slams the next through the covers for four more. And then he’s almost out next ball, which takes a leading edge and flies just over the left shoulder of the man at silly point; if he’d been standing a couple of feet further back it would have been the easiest of catches. They run a single, and Jennings works the next fine for a couple and now has his half-century. He is - wait for it - the 41st Englishman since the Second World War to score a half-century with his first innings in Test cricket. 5.35am GMT 23rd over: England 81-0 (Cook 31, Jennings 49) Jayant doesn’t let Jennings stroll to his half-century, producing a fine over that offers no freebies. 5.33am GMT 22nd over: England 81-0 (Cook 31, Jennings 49) Well this is all very encouraging for England, though it could be argued that Kohli has let Jennings off the hook here, by failing to keep the pressure on during that nervous opening period when he kept nearly getting out. @Simon_Burnton England setting things up nicely here...for a volley of rash shots and disappointingly inconsequential score #EngVsInd 5.29am GMT 21st over: England 75-0 (Cook 26, Jennings 48) Spin at both ends now, as Jayant comes on, and his final delivery really rips off the surface, in a way that will make England intensely grateful to have won the toss. Haseeb Hameed is watching here - I thought he’d flown home to get his finger sorted, but obviously not. Look who is supporting England Team from the stands #INDvENG pic.twitter.com/YHbpp3wAcC 5.23am GMT 19th over: England 70-0 (Cook 25, Jennings 44) Jennings has seen a lot more of the ball than Cook (he’s faced 74 deliveries to Cook’s 40) and has been at the heart of pretty much all the day’s best moments so far. This is already England’s joint sixth-highest debut innings of the last decade, though he’s got a long way to go to catch Matt Prior’s 126 not out at Lord’s in 2007. 5.19am GMT 18th over: England 65-0 (Cook 25, Jennings 39) Jennings, who seems to have settled down very nicely now, works Ashwin’s first delivery to fine leg for two, and then gets a couple more through midwicket. People complain about Cook's lack of tactical nous but Kohli is having a terrible morning. 5.14am GMT 17th over: England 60-0 (Cook 25, Jennings 34) Umesh is back, and there’s another excellent cover drive from Jennings, the ball flying perfectly between two fielders, neither of whom move an inch as it whistles distantly past. 5.11am GMT 16th over: England 53-0 (Cook 24, Jennings 28) A single from Ashwin’s first delivery takes England to 50. Jennings has very nearly been caught, and very nearly been dismissed lbw, but he has survived. 5.04am GMT 15th over: England 49-0 (Cook 23, Jennings 25) A nice cover drive from Jennings brings him a third boundary, and a handsome pull two balls later is his fourth, and his finest. The only other Englishmen in the top 20 touring Test batsmen in India are Gatting (No12) and Greig (No20). That’s Kumar’s eighth over, and more than most he’s earned his drinks. Alastair Cook has more Test runs in Asia than all the Indian batsmen in this team. #INDvENG 5.00am GMT 14th over: England 41-0 (Cook 23, Jennings 17) A couple of singles. With 1,135 Cook is second on the all-time list of runs scored by tourists in India, having played two matches fewer than both the No1, Clive Lloyd, and the No3, Gordon Greenidge. 4.55am GMT 13th over: England 39-0 (Cook 22, Jennings 16) Buvi keeps going. A list of England’s top run-scorers against India reveals that Michael Vaughan only played nine Test against them. This surprises me. This is Cook’s 24th. 4.50am GMT 12th over: England 36-0 (Cook 19, Jennings 16) Cook is only the sixth man to score 2,000 runs against India. He needs another 50 to become No5 in the all-time against-India rankings. Most Test runs vs India 2555 R Ponting 2344 C Lloyd 2228 J Miandad 2171 S Chanderpaul 2049 M Clarke 2000* Alastair Cook #IndvEng 4.48am GMT 11th over: England 36-0 (Cook 19, Jennings 16) Jennings tries to pull Kumar’s first ball, mishits it into the air and survives this one as well - there’s nobody anywhere near the ball when it drops in deep midwicket, and the debutant gets another three runs. And that’s all the action until the final ball of the over, pushed down the ground for four by the captain. Cook has now scored precisely 2,000 Test runs against India. 4.45am GMT 10th over: England 29-0 (Cook 15, Jennings 13) So, 10 overs gone. England are laying a foundation here. A slightly wonky, not entirely steady foundation, but a foundation just the same. 4.41am GMT 9th over: England 28-0 (Cook 15, Jennings 12) Kumar continues, and it’s a calmer over. Jennings gets a thick edge on the last ball but it’s safe enough. 4.37am GMT 8th over: England 7-0 (Cook 15, Jennings 11) Some spin, then, from Ravi Ashwin, and just five deliveries in the ball hits the surface, produces a pronounced puff of red dust and spins encouragingly. 4.34am GMT 7th over: England 23-0 (Cook 11, Jennings 10) Those fourth-over consecutive boundaries apart, Jennings is having a really awkward time. Still, he’s survived. CLOSE! After being dropped on 0, Keaton Jennings survives a tight lbw review. England 23-0 on SS2: https://t.co/QPJpRwJkF9 #INDvENG pic.twitter.com/SO2tfbTebE 4.31am GMT The ball certainly hit the pad first, and it would have hit the stumps, but he’s saved, just, by the precise spot where the ball hit the pad. Jennings gets another lifeline! 4.30am GMT India think they’ve got their man, but the on-field umpire thought the ball hit the bat first. It didn’t. 4.27am GMT 6th over: England 22-0 (Cook 11, Jennings 10) Good pace and bounce here for Umesh, and Jennings, rushed by a delivery that nips back into him, edges it into his stomach. Early shout but this pitch with a bit of extra bounce should be fine for England's batsman ... #INDvENG #400+ 4.24am GMT 5th over: England 21-0 (Cook 10, Jennings 10) Bruce Oxenford doesn’t much like where Kumar’s heading on his follow-through, and the bowler gets an official warning. It was Karun, by the way, who did the dropping at gully. 4.20am GMT 4th over: England 18-0 (Cook 9, Jennings 8) A play and a miss here from Jennings, the ball whistling just past the edge. And then he’s dropped! A slightly shorter ball and Jennings fends it into the air and the ball loops high to the left of gully, who goes for it one-handed and doesn’t hold it! It’s a hard chance, but not an impossible one. Then, just when the batsman is really uncomfortable, Yadav produces a shortish, wide delivery that’s cut away for four, and then Jennings pulls the next cleanly away for four more! 4.14am GMT 3rd over: England 10-0 (Cook 9, Jennings 0) Gah! The first boundary of the innings comes isn’t one for the highlights reel, flying as it does off the edge of his bat as he tries to work the ball through midwicket and flying past a diving gully! 4.11am GMT 2nd over: England 2-0 (Cook 2, Jennings 0) The new man’s first over in Test cricket, with Umesh Yadav bowling, features attempted but mistimed pull, the ball going straight though to hit him near the waist, one defensive block and four leaves. First time India are playing an int'l match (Test/ ODI/ T20I) in Mumbai without a Mumbai player.Had at least one in previous 64. #INDvENG 4.05am GMT 1st over: England 2-0 (Cook 2, Jennings 0) Bhuvi starts off over the wicket, and then switches halfway through the over. Cook works the ball through midwicket for a couple. Now to see what Jennings is made of ... 4.02am GMT Kumar has the ball. Cook holds his bat. Let’s watch some cricket. 3.59am GMT The anthems have been played, and India are mid-huddle. Action imminent. 3.54am GMT Apparently it’s the 21st different XI to be selected by India under Kohli’s watch. Rahane was the only other player to feature in the previous 20, so that’s one run broken. Good crowd at the ground today, although sadly in long stagnant queues outside. Told gates not opened early enough, plus tight security 3.51am GMT “I feel that the Mumbai Test offers the best chance to drive a truck through India,” writes Ramapriya. “For one, the pitch won’t help spinners until well after the halfway mark. Moreover, India’s middle-order looks even more holey than has been seen thus far due to Rahane’s absence. If I were an England bowler I’d be licking my lips seeing such inexperience in the opposition batting lineup. The bowlers can’t forever bat and bail out India! I’m an Indian but I see a decisive English victory here.” Now the toss has been won, this has to be seen as a great opportunity. Now it’s down to the batsmen to set the match up for them. 3.36am GMT For India, Shami has been ruled out with a knee injury, and Bhuvneshwar Kumar comes into the side. KL Rahul replaces the injured Rahane. Virat Kohli welcomes “an opportunity to do what we’ve done well over the last few matches”. 3.33am GMT Two changes for England: Jennings and Ball are in, Hameed and Batty are out. Alastair Cook says: It looks a good wicket, but we expect nothing different. It’s been nice to get away, a few days off. Now back to business. It’s nice turning up to a ground where you have good memories. Doesn’t count for much. Stuart Broad, as expected, has not recovered from the foot injury that kept him out in Mohali...Jake Ball gets the nod ahead of Liam Dawson 3.32am GMT Alastair Cook calls it right again, and England will - and you’re not going to believe this - bat first. 3.28am GMT Hello world! So, here we go again. It’s been an intriguing series so far, but also a disappointing one for the tourists, who have too often had to blame themselves for their failings, rather than the conditions or the toss of a coin or the sheer brilliance of their opponents. The result is renewed discussion about Alastair Cook’s immediate future, prompted by his admission earlier this year that “I do look forward to the day when I can play a Test match as just a batter”, as well as his continued conservatism in the field and his team’s inconsistent results, despite their impressive world ranking. For all the discussion, though, there is no consensus (our own Andy Bull in The Spin this week: “There is no urgent need for Cook to quit.”; Scyld Berry in the Telegraph earlier this week: “If England do not rally in the fourth Test, Cook should resign”). 1.36pm GMT Simon will be along shortly. In the meantime why not read about the implementation of a red card in cricket: Related: MCC recommends red cards be introduced into laws of cricket Continue reading...

The 24-year-old Durham left-hander captained South Africa at Under-19 level and has joined an illustrious list, containing the likes of WG Grace and Andrew Strauss Keaton Jennings became just the 19th England batsman to score a century on Test debut after reaching three figures in the first innings of the fourth Test against India in Mumbai on Thursday. The 24-year-old is in illustrious company, joining a list that includes WG Grace, Graham Thorpe, Andrew Strauss and Jonathan Trott. Related: India v England: fourth Test, day one – live! Four of the last five England batsmen to make a 100 on Test debut born in S Africa; Jennings following Trott, Prior, Strauss. Cook exception Continue reading...

Peter Handscomb, Matt Renshaw and Nic Maddinson keep places Jackson Bird and Chadd Sayers to duel for the third seamer position in side Australia’s three debutants have kept their spots in an unchanged 12-man squad for the day-night first Test against Pakistan in Brisbane. Batsmen Matt Renshaw, Peter Handscomb and Nic Maddinson will line up for the pink-ball match at the Gabba starting next Thursday after debuting for Australia in a consolation third Test win over South Africa in Adelaide last month. Related: David Warner's latest century makes his year among best of all time Continue reading...

The MCC’s plan to give umpires the power of dismissal is more the result of a decline in behaviour in the recreational game than the top level and the hope is it will be seldom if ever be used For years the MCC could be relied on for its crustiness, an unwavering bastion of the old establishment, but you cannot trust it to behave according to expectation in the 21st century. Suspicions have been aroused for a while – the advent of a sign erected outside the toilets at the back of a stand at Lord’s has been a bit of a giveaway. “Gentlemen” it proclaims but underneath is added: “Nappy Changing Facilities Available.” One can only surmise what Gubby Allen, a former president whose hand was constantly on the MCC tiller in the post-war years, would have made of that. Related: MCC recommends sendings off be introduced into laws of cricket Continue reading...

Hove club’s new chief executive has a first-class century to his name and played for Yorkshire seconds, but after more than 30 years in rugby union, he has more questions than answers as he strives to keep Sussex ‘relevant’ Eyebrows were raised in two sports when it was announced Rob Andrew would enter the fraught, fragile world of county cricket as the chief executive of Sussex. For Sussex, who received 50 applications to replace the estimable Zac Toumazi, and the county game, Andrew, a known quantity from beyond the sport’s boundary, represented quite a coup. Related: MCC recommends red cards be introduced into laws of cricket Continue reading...

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• Law expected to come into effect by October 2017 • Decline in behaviour one of reasons behind suggestion for change Umpires at all levels will soon be given the power to eject players from the field of play for threats or acts of violence as part of plans announced by the MCC World Cricket Committee that also include a restriction on bat sizes. The MCC, the guardian of the game, has become concerned about the rising number of incidents, particularly in the recreational game, and now subject to approval from its full committee, an amendment to the Laws will come into effect from 1 October next year that will see, for the first time in its 229-year history, an enshrined deterrent. Related: Rein in the size of cricket’s big bats and allow the best to be the best | Mike Selvey Continue reading...

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Warner’s 119 against New Zealand was his sixth ODI ton of 2016 Claims Australian record for most tons in a calendar year David Warner has ascended into the upper echelon of the short form cricket greats following his match-winning century against New Zealand in Canberra. Warner pounded 119 off 115 balls in the 116-run win in the second one-dayer at Manuka Oval, as the home side regained the Chappell-Hadlee Trophy. Related: David Warner's imperious century helps Australia to ODI win over New Zealand Continue reading...